ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Colin Robertson - Social energy entrepreneur
Colin Robertson is apparently "attempting to make the world's first crowdsourced solar energy solution" Or is he?

Why you should listen

Colin Robertson is a young entrepreneur with a single, world-changing idea: crowdsource solar energy solutions to the global climate crisis. He is a passionate believer in the idea that we can solve all of our problems by coming together in groups.

He is also a fictional character created by ImprovEverywhere for a special prank at TED2012. He is played by Eugene Cordero, an actor and comedian based in Los Angeles, and a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. 

More profile about the speaker
Colin Robertson | Speaker | TED.com
TED2012

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Colin Robertson mal 3 minúty na TED pódiu, aby celému svetu predostrel jeho riešenie zdravotnej starostlivosti za pomoci slnečnej energie, na ktoré prišiel vďaka crowdsourcingu. Keď v tom ...
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TodayDnes I'm going to talk
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about unexpectedneočakávaný discoveriesobjavy.
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o nečakaných objavoch.
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Now I work in the solarslnečné technologytechnológie industrypriemysel.
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Pracujem v solárno-energetickom priemysle.
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And my smallmalý startupzačiatok
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Môj malý novozaložený biznis
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is looking to forcesila ourselvesmy sami
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sa nás snaží priviesť
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into the environmentprostredie
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k starostlivosti o životné prostredie,
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by payingplatenie attentionpozornosť to ...
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a to tak ...
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... payingplatenie attentionpozornosť to crowd-sourcingCrowd-sourcing.
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... a to tak, aby sme využívali možnosti crowdsourcingu.
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It's just a quickrýchly videovideo
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Je to len také krátke video
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of what we do.
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o tom, čo robíme.
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Huh. HangZavesiť on a momentmoment.
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Heh. Vydržte chvíľočku.
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It mightsila take a momentmoment to loadzaťaženie.
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Môže chvíľu trvať, kým sa to spustí.
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(LaughterSmiech)
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We'llBudeme just -- we can just skippreskočiť --
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Môžeme -- môžeme trochu preskočiť --
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I'll just skippreskočiť throughskrz the videovideo insteadnamiesto ...
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Ja teda to video iba preklikám ...
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No.
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Nie.
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This is not ...
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Toto nie je ...
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Okay.
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V poriadku.
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SolarSolárne technologytechnológie is ...
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Solárna technológia je ...
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Oh, that's all my time?
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Čiže môj čas už vypršal?
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Okay. Thank you very much.
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Dobre teda. Ďakujem veľmi pekne.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Colin Robertson - Social energy entrepreneur
Colin Robertson is apparently "attempting to make the world's first crowdsourced solar energy solution" Or is he?

Why you should listen

Colin Robertson is a young entrepreneur with a single, world-changing idea: crowdsource solar energy solutions to the global climate crisis. He is a passionate believer in the idea that we can solve all of our problems by coming together in groups.

He is also a fictional character created by ImprovEverywhere for a special prank at TED2012. He is played by Eugene Cordero, an actor and comedian based in Los Angeles, and a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. 

More profile about the speaker
Colin Robertson | Speaker | TED.com

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