I think blaming the slave's fate on the inventor is very wrong. It's like regreting that prehistoric man invented the fire because someone gets burned. Many inventions can be used in a bad way. Therefore it's the responsibility of each individual how he behaves. This is only taking away the responsibility from each wrong-doing individual. The slave-owner is wrong, not somenone that makes slave/owning profitable.
Why are you getting so upset. Ted didn't blantly so that it was all the creators fault, he explained how tragedies can come from these inventions. So he showed examples of them. 😐
literally Eli made the cotton gin FOR THAT REASON, like he's not some innocent guy who didn't know what was going to happen, he knew what he was doing. it is quite genuinely a lot of his fault
@@veda7540 that's deep :D well, I don't think that he had in mind a scenario that his simple improvement will increase slaves' number 40x within the next 70 years :) I assume he didn't even think about slaves as the perception of people was completely different at that time.... what am I talking about? The perception of the people have changed over the last 20 years, apparently everyone lost historical context and makes judgments from today's perspective.
Some good food for thought. I always try to consider how inventions and ideas have impacted our world and how life could have been different in so many ways. Great inspiration for world building.
And yet, have you used any inventions that contribute to such problems? If you can, say no. Then google a couple of things, and be proven profoundly wrong.
I think the point of this video is that you are never quite sure how a new invention will shape the world. This is why it is doubly important that we do our due diligence in fields that have great potential for harm. Chemical engineering, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, military research ect.
The more potential for different applications, the more interest an invention will draw. Doesn't matter if one of the applications is potentially harmful. Humans need puzzles to solve so they can exercise their brains and challenges to overcome so they can potentially earn income from it.
There is one general trend: pople use new inventions not to save effort, but to make more out of it. Combustion engines became more efficient, but fuel consumption didn't drop, cars got bigger. Flatscreens need less energy, so now every workplace has two screens. Whenever we make something more efficient, we scale it up.
Meanwhile: in 1816, Krakatoa erupted and everyone had to endure the year without summer. Thousands died of frostbite. I'd wager that the mass produced cotton clothes saved more that a few people that year. Sure, making them was hard work, but the industrial revolution gave hundreds of millions of people a change of clothes. Life before industrialization sucked, and for the average man it required a huge input of work just to stay alive. Sure, there are issues even in an industrialized society, but they are infinitely preferable to the issues you see in pre-industrial societies. 10% of the society being slaves was still better than 80% of society being serfs to their landlords. The reason why we don't have slavery or serfdom any more is entirely thanks to the further development of the industrial revolution. The work that used to be done by slaves or serfs is now done by machines. We have gone from a society where almost everyone had to constantly work to make food to one where 2% of society can fully provide the rest with food, working only on a standard eight hour workday with weekends. It pains me that people don't understand how magical things like flipping a switch to light up a room or clean water from a tap are, and regularly complain about the things that make their lifestyle possible. We live in a society where the magical has become ordinary, and people don't understand just how well off they are.
I agree people quite often take for granted the brilliant inventions which surround them, but there are definitely some of us who still marvel at their brilliance! In fact the reason why I'm on TH-cam looking up videos about the history of inventions is because a few minutes ago I took my clothes out of a dryer and was overwhelmed with appreciation for this remarkable machine.
Innovation is what progresses mankind to achieve better and greater and allows us to live in a world of better understanding. The negative applications of innovation stated are more of a reflection on where humanity stems from. There are plenty of kinks to be worked out, but I'm hopeful that humanity is moving in the right directions and it is primarily due to innovation.
@@williemyself People should never stifle innovation simply because there might be cons. The only exception I can think of is maybe nuclear weapons, but half the reason the Manhattan project was funded was to create nuclear weapons before the Nazis could. Just learn how to use technology ethically. People studying artificial intelligence are required to take a billion ethics courses for a reason. It's an absolutely wonderful field with endless possibilities to improve humanity, but only if we use it wisely. Admittedly many companies are not.
All I'm getting from this is every invention and discovery is in the gray area. Meaning it has consequences both good and bad. I think that's because every decision and action comes at a price. People say "No Good Deed goes Unpunished" and "Eaten Bread is soon Forgotten." But maybe every decision yields a reward as well; it's just that it's difficult for us to see them both. It's like what my mom once told me, "There's more good than bad in the world. It's just the bad gets more attention, whereas the good is more low-key." We don't know what we loose when we choose to be lazy, and some jobs, although important, seem to be thankless. So in conclusion, we must always be more considerate of the consequences of our actions; we must ask ourselves what it will yield us, what will it cost us, and weather or not it's worth the price. And more important, we should at least try and show more appreciation for the contributions people make to us. And we should all try and thank people for doing the right thing. Otherwise, the bread we give will soon be forgotten. Thank you.:-)
Well, the use of fossil fuels and industrialisation generally has created a lot of air pollution. Plastic creates land and water pollution. Automation can cause some degree of unemployment.
Like in the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Elvis comes in and tells Picasso, Eisenstein and everyone else in the bar to "Say good-bye to the age of indifference. And say hello to the age of regret." Its a strange but good play.
Mostly, it was an example of the effects of a very major invention i.e. the cotton gin, but at the end, it concluded what it was trying to say by proposing various ways in which technology can further or diminish or quality of life. In all, it didn't answer the question directly because there isn't an answer. Really, they summarised it by saying that it all depends on the consequences and that the extremes of constant techno-optimism and technopessimism are bother mostly incorrect; innovation has advantages and disadvantages.
wierd that he didnt use Alfred Nobel as a basic model for this video. he made stabile nitroglycerin to make mining easier, but it was used for war. and he made a will that says all his money shall be used for a yearly price (nobel prices) peace, physics, math..
Einstein didn't invent e=mc^2, he just discovered it. This is like blaiming newton for a plane crash because he discovered gravity. Einstein didn't take part in manhattan project
yea, but with rest mass, the p goes to zero and one can take the positive square root of each side leading to the more famous (albeit with lesser information) equation
Has anyone noticed on the 'FUN MATH GAMES' advert that she couldn't work out how mant X's there were (there were 4) but she was saying words like concept!! 🙄🙄 Who's here for school? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Allow me to fix that (People make themselves fat, money makes them get greedy, weapons make them kill, lust makes them want more, and they make themselves lazy, property is just something to make you feel safe and that you have a home.)
The e=mc^2 and Hiroshima example really seemed a bit off to me. An invention is really unbiased. It has no objective or agency. It is the people who use it correctly or exploit it who cause the good or bad. I do agree that inventions can be double edged swords but they don't have to be.
I had to do an assignment on Eli Whitney so I watched this video. It gave me some information but not that much. Plus I wonder why It says it is bad that he invented that
Yes, that's true, but the Japanese had ALREADY offered to surrender before that. They hadn't officially sent the surrender, but they had told the Americans that they were ready to talk and stated their conditions. The US refused.
I don't think weapons cause the anger, they give people a bad way of using that anger. But they also give people a way of protecting themselves from bad people. It's as the video says. Even though they were intended for good things when they were made, bad things also tend to creep into what they are used for. Unfortunately we can never control what people will use things for. Luckily however most people are good and use them for good things.
They wouldn't, the cost of slaves versus gain of production would result in lost, the farmers would not have had the money to buy the slaves, resulting in a financial chain reaction in everything involving slaves.
The Japanese offered a full surrender with one condition: keeping their emperor. We bombed them and then accepted the terms. That is considered open knowledge, just google it. It's not hidden or anything.
I did google it, you are incorrect. Japan offered a full surrender after the bombs were dropped: "Later that day, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki. The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration."
I can see his logic, but what is his point? does he want us to stop inventing? Even if there are negative consequences to inventing do they outweigh the benefits? How could an inventor possibly know about consequences that "might" happen decades later, positive or negative?
seems like someone is a negative Nancy. inventors shouldnt be faulted for what people do with their inventions/the change in the market because of their inventions
That's interesting. Apparently 'internet' makes people more pretentious and condescending. The comment you replied to was clearly satire. Oh, and I was already this condescending before the internet.
something to ponder, for sure. But then agian, its not the invention itself, but what me do with it. history's (sadly) proved we have very little restraint :/
Lol, look at what his profile says. "I'm a really rational and peaceful guy, that's not afraid to respectfully disagree i'm a smarty pants, i'm a comic book fan, i'm a tech buff, basically i'm like a mini Neil Patrick Harris & Michael Cera hybrid"
Blame the government that allowed slavery thinking it would be abolished soon when they did nth, the ppl who made the choice to use nuclear energy as a weapon not the inventors
"Get your facts straight. It's common knowledge that they did not reply to our messages warning them to surrender", says the person who probably also believes the Vietnamese started the Vietnam war and that we totally had a good reason to invade iraq...
I think blaming the slave's fate on the inventor is very wrong. It's like regreting that prehistoric man invented the fire because someone gets burned.
Many inventions can be used in a bad way. Therefore it's the responsibility of each individual how he behaves.
This is only taking away the responsibility from each wrong-doing individual. The slave-owner is wrong, not somenone that makes slave/owning profitable.
Not each individual, the responsibility falls on the people who have got the power (= the monopoly of management).
Did you just compare a machine that helped in the growth of slavery to the invention of fire? Wow dude 😂😂😂
Why are you getting so upset. Ted didn't blantly so that it was all the creators fault, he explained how tragedies can come from these inventions. So he showed examples of them. 😐
literally Eli made the cotton gin FOR THAT REASON, like he's not some innocent guy who didn't know what was going to happen, he knew what he was doing. it is quite genuinely a lot of his fault
@@veda7540 that's deep :D well, I don't think that he had in mind a scenario that his simple improvement will increase slaves' number 40x within the next 70 years :) I assume he didn't even think about slaves as the perception of people was completely different at that time.... what am I talking about? The perception of the people have changed over the last 20 years, apparently everyone lost historical context and makes judgments from today's perspective.
Some good food for thought. I always try to consider how inventions and ideas have impacted our world and how life could have been different in so many ways. Great inspiration for world building.
"With great power, comes great responsibility.." - Uncle Ben
how do u feel about spiderman currently
I love TED- I've made my benchmark for success the first time I deliver a TED talk, or TED ED.
This makes me proud of never inventing anything in my life.
I know I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know a good site to watch newly released movies online?
@Terrell Layne i dunno lately I have been using flixportal. Just search on google after it:P -karsyn
@Karsyn Anders thanks, signed up and it seems to work =) I appreciate it!
@Terrell Layne Glad I could help xD
And yet, have you used any inventions that contribute to such problems?
If you can, say no.
Then google a couple of things, and be proven profoundly wrong.
I think the point of this video is that you are never quite sure how a new invention will shape the world. This is why it is doubly important that we do our due diligence in fields that have great potential for harm. Chemical engineering, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, military research ect.
Once upon a time, a wise man said, “Everything humanity has invented or it will invent, eventually it appears that the invention is a weapon”
ah yes, toaster weapon
@@lucid8078 Exactly!
@@PrivateColt I just realized that the original comment was 8 years ago
@@lucid8078 It doesn't matter. The post is still valid.
@@PrivateColt Oh I know, I just didn't realize it was 8 years ago, 8 years is a long time
The more potential for different applications, the more interest an invention will draw. Doesn't matter if one of the applications is potentially harmful.
Humans need puzzles to solve so they can exercise their brains and challenges to overcome so they can potentially earn income from it.
There is one general trend: pople use new inventions not to save effort, but to make more out of it. Combustion engines became more efficient, but fuel consumption didn't drop, cars got bigger. Flatscreens need less energy, so now every workplace has two screens. Whenever we make something more efficient, we scale it up.
wass up my G. My class loved it. Your favorite history teacher, mr B
ayyy proffesor nice xD jk who are uHEHHEE
I'm interested in what the students had to say after watching it!
why tf history teachers always so chill
Meanwhile: in 1816, Krakatoa erupted and everyone had to endure the year without summer. Thousands died of frostbite. I'd wager that the mass produced cotton clothes saved more that a few people that year. Sure, making them was hard work, but the industrial revolution gave hundreds of millions of people a change of clothes.
Life before industrialization sucked, and for the average man it required a huge input of work just to stay alive. Sure, there are issues even in an industrialized society, but they are infinitely preferable to the issues you see in pre-industrial societies. 10% of the society being slaves was still better than 80% of society being serfs to their landlords.
The reason why we don't have slavery or serfdom any more is entirely thanks to the further development of the industrial revolution. The work that used to be done by slaves or serfs is now done by machines. We have gone from a society where almost everyone had to constantly work to make food to one where 2% of society can fully provide the rest with food, working only on a standard eight hour workday with weekends.
It pains me that people don't understand how magical things like flipping a switch to light up a room or clean water from a tap are, and regularly complain about the things that make their lifestyle possible. We live in a society where the magical has become ordinary, and people don't understand just how well off they are.
I agree people quite often take for granted the brilliant inventions which surround them, but there are definitely some of us who still marvel at their brilliance! In fact the reason why I'm on TH-cam looking up videos about the history of inventions is because a few minutes ago I took my clothes out of a dryer and was overwhelmed with appreciation for this remarkable machine.
Krakatoa erupted in 1883
Factcheck
+Uhh Maybe You're right. The volcano that erupted in 1816 was Mt Tambora. I had the two confused, thanks for catching the error.
:~)
You're right BosonCollider. A second grader ran away from home just because he didnt have a phone
Innovation is what progresses mankind to achieve better and greater and allows us to live in a world of better understanding. The negative applications of innovation stated are more of a reflection on where humanity stems from. There are plenty of kinks to be worked out, but I'm hopeful that humanity is moving in the right directions and it is primarily due to innovation.
Just like any invention, there are always pros and cons.
That's why this is so educational because many people don't even think about the fact that there might be some cons.
@@williemyself People should never stifle innovation simply because there might be cons. The only exception I can think of is maybe nuclear weapons, but half the reason the Manhattan project was funded was to create nuclear weapons before the Nazis could. Just learn how to use technology ethically. People studying artificial intelligence are required to take a billion ethics courses for a reason. It's an absolutely wonderful field with endless possibilities to improve humanity, but only if we use it wisely. Admittedly many companies are not.
@@benlewis5312 to add on, it also ended the way much quicker and saved more lives than a land invasion would've
I just watched this video today, and my us History teacher is amazing. Eli Whitney is amazing.
Huh
All I'm getting from this is every invention and discovery is in the gray area. Meaning it has consequences both good and bad. I think that's because every decision and action comes at a price. People say "No Good Deed goes Unpunished" and "Eaten Bread is soon Forgotten." But maybe every decision yields a reward as well; it's just that it's difficult for us to see them both. It's like what my mom once told me, "There's more good than bad in the world. It's just the bad gets more attention, whereas the good is more low-key." We don't know what we loose when we choose to be lazy, and some jobs, although important, seem to be thankless.
So in conclusion, we must always be more considerate of the consequences of our actions; we must ask ourselves what it will yield us, what will it cost us, and weather or not it's worth the price. And more important, we should at least try and show more appreciation for the contributions people make to us. And we should all try and thank people for doing the right thing. Otherwise, the bread we give will soon be forgotten. Thank you.:-)
E^2=(mc^2^)2+(pc)^2, missed the () on (pc)
I need help solving this question.
What other examples of mass production, technology, industry, etc. resulted in problems or tragedy?
Well, the use of fossil fuels and industrialisation generally has created a lot of air pollution.
Plastic creates land and water pollution.
Automation can cause some degree of unemployment.
4:55
E = Energy
e ≈ 2.718281828
Like in the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Elvis comes in and tells Picasso, Eisenstein and everyone else in the bar to "Say good-bye to the age of indifference. And say hello to the age of regret." Its a strange but good play.
I loved this kind of animation.
anyone wanna help me answer this question? : : : How does this video relate to the question, does technology improve or control our lives?
Mostly, it was an example of the effects of a very major invention i.e. the cotton gin, but at the end, it concluded what it was trying to say by proposing various ways in which technology can further or diminish or quality of life. In all, it didn't answer the question directly because there isn't an answer. Really, they summarised it by saying that it all depends on the consequences and that the extremes of constant techno-optimism and technopessimism are bother mostly incorrect; innovation has advantages and disadvantages.
This really made me think. Thank you!
@Angely RodriguezMolina well, I said it anyway 😂 whatcha gon do about it?
how does the revolutionary war have anything to do with slavery like this guy said in the opening?
Moral lessons:Choose inventions that suitable,necessary for your life.Invent your own handwriting,lifestyle,food,objects,drink,...
1:54 light balbs did not exist yet try a candle?
It's not the invention, or the inventor, it's the user, and it is us the public that help fund it and that have to say no.
wierd that he didnt use Alfred Nobel as a basic model for this video.
he made stabile nitroglycerin to make mining easier, but it was used for war.
and he made a will that says all his money shall be used for a yearly price (nobel prices)
peace, physics, math..
Einstein didn't invent e=mc^2, he just discovered it. This is like blaiming newton for a plane crash because he discovered gravity. Einstein didn't take part in manhattan project
knowledge is a blessing and a curse, but necessary one
yea, but with rest mass, the p goes to zero and one can take the positive square root of each side leading to the more famous (albeit with lesser information) equation
Eli Whitney was the first person to make gin out of cotton!
bruh the ending :,(
what does it mean?
@@amber6422 do you even know what Hiroshima is
@@israelcortez2485 ...i've been to hiroshima
@@israelcortez2485 Oh and I am aware of what happened, it's just that "world of possibilities" thing. It's just vague.
Excellent presentation
Very true inventions can change everything for better or worse.
Has anyone noticed on the 'FUN MATH GAMES' advert that she couldn't work out how mant X's there were (there were 4) but she was saying words like concept!! 🙄🙄
Who's here for school? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
please give me it's word drapt . Iam vietnamese so i need the tapecript to help me practice listening and other skills
Vietnamese is there in captions
Allow me to fix that (People make themselves fat, money makes them get greedy, weapons make them kill, lust makes them want more, and they make themselves lazy, property is just something to make you feel safe and that you have a home.)
Came here to see if someone had answers
Not complaning, just warning. "invention can be a double edge sword"
if im not mistaken they also copied the Pc right?
Im sorry im just here because of school , I mean thx for the workk! 😡
@Noah Reneau why would you like to ban this type of videos? I mean, it's better than an hour long documentary
i like how people in the comments are correcting the guy in the video
Who is John Galt?
The e=mc^2 and Hiroshima example really seemed a bit off to me. An invention is really unbiased. It has no objective or agency. It is the people who use it correctly or exploit it who cause the good or bad. I do agree that inventions can be double edged swords but they don't have to be.
I had to do an assignment on Eli Whitney so I watched this video. It gave me some information but not that much. Plus I wonder why It says it is bad that he invented that
It wasn't the greatest invention because it raised the demand for slavery. Also, you should use multiple sources when doing an assignment.
Use a book in order to find sources as well
No. Maybe. Not all anger. It can cause it. Sometimes. It isn't.
I still wonder how with little information and formal education people invented .
Yes, that's true, but the Japanese had ALREADY offered to surrender before that. They hadn't officially sent the surrender, but they had told the Americans that they were ready to talk and stated their conditions. The US refused.
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I don't think weapons cause the anger, they give people a bad way of using that anger. But they also give people a way of protecting themselves from bad people. It's as the video says. Even though they were intended for good things when they were made, bad things also tend to creep into what they are used for. Unfortunately we can never control what people will use things for. Luckily however most people are good and use them for good things.
help me please.. how did research change the world for the better?
They wouldn't, the cost of slaves versus gain of production would result in lost, the farmers would not have had the money to buy the slaves, resulting in a financial chain reaction in everything involving slaves.
The Japanese offered a full surrender with one condition: keeping their emperor. We bombed them and then accepted the terms.
That is considered open knowledge, just google it. It's not hidden or anything.
Actually, it's E²=(mc²)²+(pc)² :P You forgot to square the (mc²) part.
i'm with you bro
I did google it, you are incorrect. Japan offered a full surrender after the bombs were dropped:
"Later that day, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki. The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration."
I can see his logic, but what is his point? does he want us to stop inventing? Even if there are negative consequences to inventing do they outweigh the benefits? How could an inventor possibly know about consequences that "might" happen decades later, positive or negative?
Wow, surprisingly coherent and thoughtful for a drunk memory.
Your so insensitive 😤
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That comment gets deeper the more more you look at it.
Very good
(something logical and that you cannot argue with because it's accurate)
It's not science and technology that's bad, it's what you do with it...
seems like someone is a negative Nancy. inventors shouldnt be faulted for what people do with their inventions/the change in the market because of their inventions
3:28 I thought they were salt and pepper shakers, lol
They are a small price to pay for improved technology.
if anyone was completely and utterly ripped off it was xerox... poor bastards... made the first computer and got shat on by apple
Not mentioning that the people now have no money to do other things :-/
That's interesting. Apparently 'internet' makes people more pretentious and condescending. The comment you replied to was clearly satire.
Oh, and I was already this condescending before the internet.
Incredible 😎👍
something to ponder, for sure.
But then agian, its not the invention itself, but what me do with it. history's (sadly) proved we have very little restraint :/
not realy it is E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc^2)
History shows that so far technology, on balance, has made the world massively better.
*Einstein made e=mc^2*
*USA used that equation to make nuclear bomb for war*
Einstein:Am i the joke to you??
Lol, look at what his profile says.
"I'm a really rational and peaceful guy, that's not afraid to respectfully disagree
i'm a smarty pants,
i'm a comic book fan,
i'm a tech buff,
basically i'm like a mini Neil Patrick Harris & Michael Cera hybrid"
i'm not sure if you're sure
The good outweighs the bad 99 to 1.
umm... sorry it is actually E2=(mc2)2+pc2
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Cant be too sure on YT comments :(
Well, now we know...
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And you will never know who I am mwahhahaha
Give me a break. Tablet style computers have been around since long before Apple introduced the iPad...
Man is an inventing animal. He creates new technology all the time. If he did not we would live like cave-men and nothing would ever change.
The prime example of an invention being used for good and bad is the airplane.
And then the cotton gin inventor invented interchangable gun parts. Which made america better at the civil war
Not exactly up to TEDed level as far as subject matter; these are lessons/info. that we all learned in middle school.
He only explained the idea in a historical point of view. What about the modern standard inventions.
Blame the government that allowed slavery thinking it would be abolished soon when they did nth, the ppl who made the choice to use nuclear energy as a weapon not the inventors
But I like the intro :(
Comment full of truth
invention is neutral putting it to use makes it good or bad.
lets clean earth of bad people so we can invent things which we can put in a good use.
What, are we gonna just forget about Babbage entirely?
Sure he never actually built it, but come on!
Yeah, his cow-catcher sure revolutionized the West. Maybe if he had built it, he would have made it into this vid.
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Really?
"Get your facts straight. It's common knowledge that they did not reply to our messages warning them to surrender", says the person who probably also believes the Vietnamese started the Vietnam war and that we totally had a good reason to invade iraq...
and apparently internet makes people dumber, not everyone is affected yet, but you are a clear case that some cases advance faster then others!
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