Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
جوان بليدز و جون جابل: حرر نفسك من فقاعاتك المرشحة
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?
سياساتٍ مختلفة؟
in a town full of progressives,
أعيش في بلدةٍ مليئةٍ بالمتحررين
any conservative friends.
يكن لدي أي صديق محافظ.
in a Republican family
locally and at the national level.
الجمهورية، محلياً ودُوليا.
I've been in technology
كنت أعمل في التكنولوجيا
Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal,
مونيكا لوينسكي- كلينتون،
with a one-sentence petition:
بجملة عريضة واحدة:
censure the president
أن ينتقد الرئيس مباشرة
facing the nation."
التي تواجة الأمة."
a very unifying petition in many ways.
موحدةً جدا بطرق مختلفة.
for the country was to move on.
الأفضل للبلاد هو التقدم للأمام.
I saw the polarization just continue.
in other parts of the country.
في أجزاء مختلفة من البلاد.
to get together with grassroots leaders
للتواصل مع أحد القادة الشعبيين
in the Christian Coalition,
the way MoveOn is seen as on the left.
بينما كان (MoveOn) على اليسار.
showing up on Capitol Hill
leaders, my friend,
have the opportunity
الناس أن تكون لديهم الفرصة
that have very different views?
لديهم وجهات نظر مختلفةٍ تماماً؟
from a small coal mining town,
for the first few years of my life,
أخرى، فرانكفورت، بكينتوكي.
Frankfort, Kentucky.
in small-town America,
they're a little different.
مختلفاتٍ قليلة.
to a progressive area
إلى الغرب إلى حيث المنطقة المتحررة
for Netscape Navigator,
and inspired by a vision:
these different people around the world
الناس المختلفين حول العالم
that the whole world has to offer.
خطاب قبل عشرين عاماً
to discriminate against each other
للتميز ضد بعضنا البعض
and decided to hate each other more.
وقررنا أن نكره بعضنا.
too many people, too many ideas --
الكثير من الناس، الكثير من الأفكار...
to filter it out a little bit.
لأجل تصفيتها قليلاً.
who think just like me.
in our beliefs.
of anybody who's different than we are.
مع أي شخصٍ يختلفنا.
The modern world?
العالم الحديث؟
that technology is changing,
عبارة عن التكنولوجيا المتغير،
جعلني أبدأ موقع (AllSides.com)
why I started AllSides.com --
to free us from these filter bubbles.
لتحريرنا من فقاعات المرشحة هذه.
technology that identifies bias,
هو تكنولوجيا يتعرف التمييز،
perspectives side by side
نظر مختلفة جنباً لجنب
bubbles of news media.
التي تصنعها وسائل الأعلام.
of Washington, DC,
of cross-partisan bridge builders,
الجسور بين الحزبية،
the fabric of our communities.
can be a strength,
about the work he was doing
حول العمل الذي كان يعمله
or do collaborative problem-solving
محادثة أو على تسوية المشاكل بالتعاون
to go on a walk,
الذهاب في مسيرة،
the way I was thinking about things.
التي لا زلت أفكر بها حول الأشياء.
عن فقاعات الترشيح،
information filter bubbles,
and social filter bubbles.
nearly as smart as we think we are.
لسنا أذكياء كما نعتقد.
decisions intellectually.
we want to rationalize.
like Mr. Spock,
like Captain Kirk,
مثل كابتن كيرك،
يفضلون طاقم "ستار تريك" الجديد،
the new "Star Trek" crew,
with that kind of optimism?
مع هذا النوع من التفاؤل؟
is a big deal -- very important.
في عقولنا هو أمر مهم... مهم جداً.
is very important.
but relationship diversity.
I mean big "D" diversity,
which are very important,
كانا مهمين جداً،
الجمهوري والديموقراطي أيضا.
of somebody freeing themselves
للأشخاص الذين حرروا أنفسهم
relationships lost or harmed
religion or whatever?
الدين أو أي شيء آخر؟
as they talk about family members
وهم يتحدثون عن أفراد عائلتهم
and personal differences.
viewpoints each invite two friends
to some simple ground rules:
respect, taking turns --
الاحترام، تبادل الأدوار...
in kindergarten, right?
أليس كذلك؟
the topic you've agreed to talk about,
عن الموضوع الذي اتفقنا عليه،
to people we care about.
نهتم لأمرهم بشكل مختلف.
in our own living rooms
and even love people
أن تحترم وحتى تحب الناس
you yearn to have?
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