Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
Joan Blades y John Gable: Libérate de tus filtros burbuja
Joan Blades shares a simple six-person conversation guide that helps people with differences get to know and even like each other. Full bioJohn Gable - Technologist, activist
John Gable is the founder and CEO of AllSides.com, which builds better understanding across divides. Full bio
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politically diverse friends?
políticamente diversos?
in a town full of progressives,
Vivo en un pueblo lleno de progresistas,
any conservative friends.
amigos conservadores.
mezcla de amigos,
in a Republican family
en una familia republicana
locally and at the national level.
republicana a nivel local y nacional.
I've been in technology
he trabajado en tecnología
en un área muy progresista.
notoriamente progresista.
Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal,
por la acusación Mónica Lewinsky-Clinton,
with a one-sentence petition:
con una petición de una sola frase:
censure the president
inmediatamente al presidente
facing the nation."
que enfrenta la nación".
a very unifying petition in many ways.
muy unificadora en muchos sentidos.
u odiar a Clinton
for the country was to move on.
para el país era seguir adelante.
I saw the polarization just continue.
la polarización simplemente continuaba.
de manera tan diferente
in other parts of the country.
de otras partes del país.
to get together with grassroots leaders
de reunirme con líderes de base
la oportunidad de hablar antes.
in the Christian Coalition,
en la Coalición Cristiana,
the way MoveOn is seen as on the left.
MoveOn es vista como a la izquierda.
showing up on Capitol Hill
leaders, my friend,
de la Coalición Cristiana, mi amigo,
transformacional para mí.
have the opportunity
personas tener la oportunidad
that have very different views?
de vista muy diferentes?
from a small coal mining town,
estado en una pequeña ciudad minera,
for the first few years of my life,
Frankfort, Kentucky.
pequeña, Frankfort, Kentucky.
in small-town America,
en una pequeña ciudad de EE. UU.
they're a little different.
son un poco diferentes.
to a progressive area
al oeste a un área progresiva
for Netscape Navigator,
del Navigator Netscape,
and inspired by a vision:
e inspiró una visión:
personas diferentes de todo el mundo
these different people around the world
that the whole world has to offer.
todos tenemos para ofrecer.
no funcionaría de esa manera,
to discriminate against each other
para discriminarnos unos a otros
and decided to hate each other more.
y decidiéramos odiarnos más.
too many people, too many ideas --
personas, demasiadas ideas,
to filter it out a little bit.
para filtrarlo un poco.
con las que ya estoy de acuerdo.
who think just like me.
que piensan igual que yo.
del mundo tan estrechas.
in our beliefs.
más extremos en nuestras creencias,
of anybody who's different than we are.
cualquiera que sea diferente a nosotros.
The modern world?
¿El mundo moderno?
la tecnología está cambiando,
that technology is changing,
why I started AllSides.com --
por qué inicié AllSides.com,
to free us from these filter bubbles.
que nos liberaren de los filtros burbuja.
technology that identifies bias,
tecnología que identificara el sesgo,
perspectives side by side
perspectivas una al lado de la otra
bubbles of news media.
de los medios de comunicación.
of Washington, DC,
fuera de Washington, DC,
of cross-partisan bridge builders,
constructores de puentes transversales.
the fabric of our communities.
el tejido de nuestras comunidades.
can be a strength,
pueden ser una fortaleza,
pueden ser complementarios
sobre el trabajo que estaba haciendo
about the work he was doing
separadas no es bueno.
or do collaborative problem-solving
resolver problemas de manera colaborativa
llevarse hoy de aquí
to go on a walk,
the way I was thinking about things.
Cambió la forma cómo veía las cosas.
information filter bubbles,
filtro burbuja de información,
and social filter bubbles.
de relación y filtro social.
nearly as smart as we think we are.
tan inteligentes como creemos.
decisiones intelectualmente.
decisions intellectually.
intuitivamente,
we want to rationalize.
lo que queremos racionalizar.
like Mr. Spock,
como el Sr. Spock,
like Captain Kirk,
como el Capitán Kirk,
como el Dr. McCoy.
the new "Star Trek" crew,
la nueva tripulación de "Star Trek",
with that kind of optimism?
un futuro con ese tipo de optimismo?
is a big deal -- very important.
es una cosa muy importante.
is very important.
es muy importante.
diversidad a nuestras vidas,
but relationship diversity.
sino diversidad de relaciones.
I mean big "D" diversity,
a la gran diversidad "D",
which are very important,
que son muy importantes,
of somebody freeing themselves
de alguien que se libera
relationships lost or harmed
perdidas o perjudicadas
religion or whatever?
en política, religión o lo que sea?
as they talk about family members
al hablar de miembros de la familia
Living Room fueron diseñadas
and personal differences.
las diferencias políticas y personales.
viewpoints each invite two friends
puntos de vista invitan a dos amigos
to some simple ground rules:
con algunas reglas básicas simples:
respect, taking turns --
in kindergarten, right?
en el jardín infantil ¿verdad?
the topic you've agreed to talk about,
del que has aceptado hablar,
de condición humana;
to people we care about.
a las personas que nos importan.
in our own living rooms
en nuestras salas de estar
diferentes puntos de vista
and even love people
e incluso amar a las personas
you yearn to have?
que anhelas tener?
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Joan Blades - Domestic peace advocateJoan Blades shares a simple six-person conversation guide that helps people with differences get to know and even like each other.
Why you should listen
Joan Blades is a co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org, an open-source effort to rebuild respectful civil discourse across ideological, cultural and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. She is also a co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org. She is a co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line, winner of a Nautilus book award in 2011, and The Motherhood Manifesto, which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007.
Last century, Blades was a software entrepreneur, a co-founder of Berkeley Systems, best known for the Flying Toaster and the game "You Don't Know Jack." A mediator (attorney) by training and inclination, she is a nature lover, artist and true believer in the power of citizens and our need to rebuild respectful civil discourse while embracing our core shared values.
Joan Blades | Speaker | TED.com
John Gable - Technologist, activist
John Gable is the founder and CEO of AllSides.com, which builds better understanding across divides.
Why you should listen
John Gable offers a unique combination of technology and politics. He started in tech 24 years ago by joining the original Microsoft Office team, then became the PM team lead for Netscape Navigator. He also led ZoneAlarm at Check Point Software, and cofounded and sold Kavi Corp. Gable was previously a Republican operative, working for three Senate majority leaders (Howard Baker, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell), the Republican National Committee and George H.W. Bush.
Now Gable and his multi-partisan AllSides.com team use technology to present news and issues from many angles to allow people to make up their own minds. Their mission: "free people from filter bubbles so they can better understand the world and each other."
John Gable | Speaker | TED.com