Bridging the Digital Divide | Jim Sevier | TEDxGreenville

"I find it interesting that with record levels of technology consumption the gap separating us digitally from one another continues to grow at an alarming rate. I have made it part of my practice to help remove the barriers keeping us from achieving Global Digital Unity." Jim Sevier
Jim Sevier is an entrepreneur, thought leader and business transformation advocate in the area of internet related technologies.
Mr. Sevier's 30+ years of experience centers on translating technology into everyday personal and professional language.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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your teacher sent you here?

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[@elmirazafri3137]

this deserves more view this man was clear and logical thank you this helped me alot with my report im doing about digital divide

[@maxwellkgalema3919]

I had an Assignment on this topic, I needed ideas on how to provide a solid argument. You can made it clear and I'm now going over the required number of words needed. Thanks for the good video Jim Sevier

[@moniquevassallo8425]

same! haha

[@devileye90]

HAHAHA SAME

[@nabadatv6128]

Me too but I haven't not yet listened

[@kaylenecolhoff1348]

Saaaame currently writing a paper on this from my Speech Communication class 😂

[@nabadatv6128]

Good luck did my presentation and got a distinction thank God

[@marscience9387]

the digital world is amazing. people have never been more remote from each other.

[@danamcmullen7433]

This was an excellent talk. I'm currently a part of a coding bootcamp and I need to come up with a capstone project. This definitely gives me food for thought on how I might want to proceed with my project. It also helps me to have a clearer view of what continues to contribute to the digital divide. I like the term you uses "shamanic interface." That was really cool, inspirational and I feel it's so accurate!

[@thembien.ndhlovu9462]

Grateful for this. Thank you. Am busy with my assignment.

[@Brantopias]

Damn, dude is trying to make jokes and nobody is having it.

[@JDS142]

literally the whole time ahahaha

[@reggie_ulon]

i noticed

[@mizingachiumya4276]

This idea and concept will definitely help me pass my icts exam...thank you

[@oyedotunodunayo406]

Solid presentation

[@GalaxyDudeKing]

Good talk! helped me a lot in school!

[@trendingnews5361]

very powerful message

[@samuelgallegor411]

you may like his oratory or not, but this guy is a damn genius!

[@priyacool2500]

In corona times, this talk is all the more relevant. Its exposed inequites and dark ages of poor third world asian and african countries.

[@wetbadger2174]

You know what would be easier than building a "shamanic interface?" Making everyone literate. Many countries have done it, the U.S. simply has chosen not to.

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👏🏼👏🏼

[@zampai]

God pls don’t make us use the Kinect

[@timothyferrell245]

My body is ready.

[@vincent.z.77]

watch this prepare for my IGCSE exam lol

[@lachi6846]

its a jungle difference bro

[@kierrast.v3926]

What are 3 thing you learned from this video?

[@dobred2476]

nice try, Kierra

[@Aman1nFull]

So instead of typing our queries into search engines, Jim Sevier suggests we "speak in" our queries. How is that going to be the solution? Also, I quite like typing.

[@eringroves6141]

There are millions of people around the world with various forms of reading and writing dyslexia. Creating a search engine to speak into would open doors and possibilities for all these people. And what about children who can't read/write yet? My 6 year old loves to learn about dinosaurs. He's able to use the speak function on the search engine to learn more about dinosaurs.

[@elyjamesalterado24]

Lol imagine texting using shamanic interface it will be a chaos

[@user-or9be8tg8d]

A 12 minute video on something that could have been said in about 30 seconds. This is so dumbed-down.

[@jmburnz]

Some evidence would have been useful, he makes a lot of very bold statements, doesn't make a lot of claims but implies "somatic gestures" will "solve the digital divide", which seem pretty ridiculous so barely worth taking seriously. Perhaps less ridiculous is the idea somatic gestures might make it easier for the unskilled to access or use the digital world - might be true, maybe not - he provides no evidence either way, which is interesting because companies have been working on somatic gesture UI for years, some is very advanced. This is not new, you would thing think there might be some research or he's at least doing some?