Eric Haseltine: What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?
Eric Haseltine: Was wird der nächste wissenschaftliche Durchbruch sein?
Eric Haseltine applies discoveries about the brain to innovation and forecasting game-changing advances in science and technology. Full bio
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my passion for science.
für die Wissenschaft vermittteln.
that takes baby steps.
die kleine Schritte geht.
that takes enormous leaps.
die große Sprünge macht.
that turns the world on its head.
die die Welt auf den Kopf stellt.
about two ideas that might do this.
berichten, die dies erreichen könnten.
most are flat wrong,
sind einfach meistens falsch,
seldom have the impact
haben selten Einfluss,
two ideas in particular,
dieser zwei Ideen zu erläutern,
compulsively thorough doctor
zwanghaft gründlicher Arzt,
soon after giving birth
Entbindung an hohem Fieber
at one of the clinics than at the other.
als in der anderen.
what the difference was that caused this,
until he happened to autopsy a doctor
bis er einen Arzt autopsierte,
Skalpellschnitt starb.
to those of the mothers who were dying.
denen der sterbenden Mütter identisch.
get the same thing as new mothers?
wie diese Mütter sterben?
everything the doctor had done
was der Arzt getan hatte
that he'd been autopsying a corpse.
eine Leiche autopsiert hatte.
in his wound that killed him?
das ihn tötete?
for any connection he could
nach einem Zusammenhang
and dead mothers in his delivery room,
und den toten Müttern in der Entbindung,
Klinik mit der hohen Todesrate,
with the high death rate,
after autopsying corpses in the morgue.
autopsierten, Entbindungen vornahmen.
the doctors' hands
die Hände der Ärzte
to sterilize their hands,
ihre Hände zu desinfizieren,
had discovered infectious disease.
die infektiöse Krankheit.
thought he was crazy,
dachten er sei verrückt,
and had for hundreds of years,
hunderte Jahre gewusst hatten,
called miasmas caused disease,
Krankheiten verursachten,
that you couldn't see.
die man nicht sehen konnte.
for Frenchman Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur 20 Jahre,
why milk and beer spoiled so often.
warum Milch und Bier so oft verderben.
die Übeltäter waren.
could kill people in exactly the same way
Leute genau auf dieselbe Art töteten,
to talk about tonight, in two ideas.
über die ich heute reden wollte.
that he was a revolutionary.
dass er ein Revolutionär war.
to a completely new world.
für eine komplett neuen Welt.
den 1680ern von Bakterien.
that bacteria killed people.
Bakterien töten Menschen.
that people kept close to their heart.
die den Leuten so am Herzen lag.
Bacteria killed people.
Bakterien töteten Menschen.
I want to talk about tonight.
über die ich heute reden will.
to a completely new universe,
eine total neue Welt
langwierige Ansichten an.
to an entirely new world
Brechen der Physikgesetze
komplett neue Welt geöffnet.
Bell Laboratory
renommierten Bell-Labor,
für die Biologie erfand,
were taking his brilliant inventions
seine brillianten Erfindungen
for figuring out
weiterzuforschen,
to see finer and finer details
Details als je zuvor oder jemals
or ever could be seen.
going to understand how cells work,
wollen wie Zellen funktionieren,
150th the size of a head of a pin
kleiner ist als eine Nadelkopf
called the law of physics,
is the thing called the diffraction limit.
Beugungsgrenze bekannt.
when you go to a doctor's office,
als gingen sie Sie zum Optiker,
no matter how good glasses you have.
man kann nie alles sehen.
wie man ein kleines Molekül nimmt,
figured out how to take a tiny molecule
Mikroskope zu erkennen,
the best microscope could see
are not so unbreakable after all."
gar nicht so unumstösslich."
in his friend's living room.
seines Freundes ein Mikroskop.
got different protein molecules
erlaubte, verschiedene Eiweißmoleküle
to turn very, very fuzzy blurs
sehr verschwommene Flecken
of unprecedented and startling clarity.
vorher gesehene, klare Bilder wandeln.
Eric Betzig letztes Jahr den Nobelpreis.
with unprecedented detail
a better handle on things like cancer.
Krebs besser behandeln.
Betzig was satisfied there?
that he invented were just too slow.
die er erfand, zu langsam waren.
if you take two very, very fine patterns
man zwei sehr feine Raster
be able to see.
to taking a really blurry image of a cell
einem unklaren Bild einer Zelle.
light patterns across it
kristallklar aufzunehmen.
die umherschießen
we don't know what they're doing.
we'll have a better handle on life itself.
werden wir unser Dasein besser verstehen.
green globs that you see?
that protect other molecules
hijack those to infect cells.
überfallen, um Zellen zu infizieren.
wormlike things moving around?
die wie Würmer zappeln?
also climb down those things
deep inside a cell,
of curing viral diseases like AIDS.
Krankheiten wie AIDS zu heilen.
our eyes to a completely new world.
eine neue Welt eröffnet hat.
any cherished beliefs.
gehegten Prinzipien verworfen.
squirming with an interesting idea:
im Dreieck wegen De Greys Idee:
think he's a crackpot.
denken, er sei ein Spinner.
consequence of living.
Konsequenz des Daseins ist.
what we call free radicals.
deren Mutation bedingen,
es ist genau wie Sauerstoff,
there is something called immortality:
etwas wie Unsterblichkeit gibt:
into giant walking malignant tumors.
laufende bösartige Tumore verwandeln.
but could de Grey be on to something?
könnte de Grey an etwas dran sein?
seeing him as a crackpot.
ihn als Spinner anzusehen.
as a computer scientist,
in biology from Cambridge,
in Cambridge erhalten,
some very significant work
Thesen veröffentlicht
and a bunch of other stuff.
und ein paar andere Dinge.
an antiaging foundation
einer Anti-Alterungs-Stiftung,
des Alterns ermittelte,
seven different causes of aging,
of fixes for every single one of them.
Maßnahmen dagegen zu finden.
is that our mitochondrial DNA mutates,
dass unsere mitochondriale DNA mutiert.
and our cells lose energy.
verlieren Energie.
a convincing case,
genutzt werden könnten,
is going to revolutionize our lifespans.
Lebenserwartung revolutionieren wird.
and most of us are not lobsters.
noch sind die meisten von uns Hummer.
Darwins and Einsteins out there,
da draußen Darwins und Einsteine gibt,
alive today than during Darwin's time.
in der Welt als zu Darwins Zeiten.
alive today as Einstein.
als zu Einsteins Zeiten.
der Bevölkerung in die Höhe schnellte,
in the population has skyrocketed,
that there's one of them out there
dass es da draußen jemanden gibt,
unser Dasein komplett umzuwandeln.
and I don't know about you,
aber ich kann es kaum erwarten.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eric Haseltine - Author, futurist, innovatorEric Haseltine applies discoveries about the brain to innovation and forecasting game-changing advances in science and technology.
Why you should listen
Dr. Eric Haseltine is a neuroscientist and futurist who has applied a brain-centered approach to help organizations in aerospace, entertainment, healthcare, consumer products and national security transform and innovate. He is the author of Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories. For five years, he wrote a monthly column on the brain for Discover magazine and is a frequent contributor to Psychology Today's web site, where his popular blog on the brain has garnered over 800,000 views. Haseltine received the Distinguished Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Management and has published 41 patents and patent applications in optics, media and entertainment technology.
In 1992 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering to help found the Virtual Reality Studio, which he ultimately ran until his departure from Disney in 2002. When he left Disney, Haseltine was executive vice president of Imagineering and head of R&D for the entire Disney Corporation, including film, television, theme parks, Internet and consumer products.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Eric joined the National Security Agency to run its Research Directorate. Three years later, he was promoted to associate of director of National Intelligence, where he oversaw all science and technology efforts within the United States Intelligence Community as well as fostering development innovative new technologies for countering cyber threats and terrorism. For his work on counter-terrorism technologies, he received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal in 2007.
Haseltine serves on numerous boards, and is an active consultant, speaker and writer. Over the past three years, he has focused heavily on developing innovation strategies and consumer applications for the Internet of Things, virtual reality and augmented reality.
Haseltine continues to do basic research in neuroscience, with his most recent publications focusing on the mind-body health connection and exploitation of big-data to uncover subtle, but important trends in mental and physical health.
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