Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
Joan Blades e John Gable: Liberatevi dalla vostra bolla di filtri
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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orientamento politico?
politically diverse friends?
in a town full of progressives,
piena di progressisti
any conservative friends.
assortimento di amici,
in a Republican family
in una famiglia repubblicana
locally and at the national level.
a livello locale e nazionale,
I've been in technology
in ambito tecnologico
notoriamente progressista
Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal,
dello scandalo Lewinsky-Clinton,
with a one-sentence petition:
con la seguente petizione:
censure the president
censurare il Presidente
facing the nation."
urgenti per il paese."
a very unifying petition in many ways.
per molti versi unificante.
for the country was to move on.
fosse meglio andare oltre.
I saw the polarization just continue.
il processo di divisione
in modo così diverso
in other parts of the country.
di incontrare alcuni leader popolari
to get together with grassroots leaders
di parlare prima.
in the Christian Coalition,
della Christian Coalition,
the way MoveOn is seen as on the left.
come MoveOn è considerato di sinistra.
showing up on Capitol Hill
al Congresso
leaders, my friend,
leader della Christian Coalition
have the opportunity
dare alle persone l'opportunità
that have very different views?
con chi ha idee diverse dalle loro.
from a small coal mining town,
poco distante dalla cittadina mineraria
for the first few years of my life,
Frankfort, Kentucky.
sempre in Kentucky.
in small-town America,
they're a little different.
sono leggermente diverse tra loro.
to a progressive area
a Ovest, in un'area progressista
in campo tecnologico.
per Netscape Navigator,
for Netscape Navigator,
and inspired by a vision:
da una visione:
these different people around the world
in tutto il mondo
importanti decisioni
l'un l'altro
che il mondo offre.
that the whole world has to offer.
non sarebbe andata così,
to discriminate against each other
a discriminarci l'un l'altro
and decided to hate each other more.
decidendo di odiarci l'un l'altro di più.
too many people, too many ideas --
troppe idee -
to filter it out a little bit.
per filtrare il tutto.
who think just like me.
esattamente come noi.
davvero preoccupanti
così limitata.
in our beliefs.
si estremizzano.
of anybody who's different than we are.
verso chi è diverso da noi.
The modern world?
Il mondo attuale?
that technology is changing,
è che la tecnologia sta cambiando,
why I started AllSides.com --
ho creato AllSides.com,
to free us from these filter bubbles.
che ci liberino da queste bolle di filtri.
technology that identifies bias,
una tecnologia che identifica le faziosità
perspectives side by side
una accanto all'altra
bubbles of news media.
dei mezzi d'informazione.
of Washington, DC,
fuori Washington, DC,
of cross-partisan bridge builders,
di idealisti mediatori.
the fabric of our communities.
che unisce le nostre comunità.
can be a strength,
possano essere una forza,
possano essere complementari
con John
about the work he was doing
il lavoro che stava facendo
la bolla dei filtri.
non è una cosa positiva.
or do collaborative problem-solving
o collaborare per risolvere i problemi,
gli stessi fatti.
to go on a walk,
di fare due passi,
the way I was thinking about things.
il mio modo di vedere le cose.
information filter bubbles,
ai filtri d'informazione,
and social filter bubbles.
e di relazione.
nearly as smart as we think we are.
come crediamo.
decisions intellectually.
per prendere decisioni,
i nostri cervelloni
we want to rationalize.
ciò che vogliamo.
like Mr. Spock,
tipo il signor Spock,
like Captain Kirk,
come il capitano Kirk,
come il dottor McCoy.
del nuovo "Star Trek",
the new "Star Trek" crew,
with that kind of optimism?
con quel tipo di ottimismo?
is a big deal -- very important.
è un fatto davvero importante.
is very important.
è importante,
alla nostra vita -
but relationship diversity.
ma anche nelle relazioni.
I mean big "D" diversity,
which are very important,
che sono fondamentali,
Democratici e Repubblicani.
of somebody freeing themselves
di liberazione
con più diversità
accanto a me: Joan.
relationships lost or harmed
perse o rovinate
religion or whatever?
o di altro tipo?
nel parlare di familiari
as they talk about family members
è stato pensato
and personal differences.
politiche e personali.
viewpoints each invite two friends
invitano altri due amici a testa
to some simple ground rules:
alcune semplici regole di base:
respect, taking turns --
turni di parola -
in kindergarten, right?
all'asilo, vero?
the topic you've agreed to talk about,
al tema scelto,
non mi dispiace"
in modo diverso.
to people we care about.
coloro a cui teniamo.
di ascolto attento,
incredibilmente forte.
in our own living rooms
and even love people
e persino amare
you yearn to have?
che vorreste avere?
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