TEDGlobal 2011
Adam Ostrow: After your final status update
Adam Ostrow: Efter din sidste statusopdatering.
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Mange af os har en tilstedeværelse i de sociale medier - en virtuel personlighed skabt af statusopdateringer, tweets og forbindelser lagret i "skyen". Adam Ostrow stiller et stort spørgsmål: Hvad sker med den personlighed når vi dør? Kunne den... leve videre?
Adam Ostrow - Journalist
As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web. Full bio
As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web. Full bio
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By the end of this year,
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Når dette år er ovre
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there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet
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vil der være næsten én milliard mennesker på denne planet
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that actively use social networking sites.
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som aktivt bruger sociale netværkssider.
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The one thing that all of them have in common
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Den ting de alle har til fælles
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is that they're going to die.
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er at de alle dør.
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While that might be a somewhat morbid thought,
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Selvom det måske er en temmelig morbid tanke,
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I think it has some really profound implications
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mener jeg at det har nogle meget vidtrækkende konsekvenser
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that are worth exploring.
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som er værd at undersøge.
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What first got me thinking about this
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Det som først fik mig til at tænke over dette
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was a blog post authored earlier this year by Derek K. Miller,
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var et blog-indlæg forfattet af Derek K. Miller tidligere i år,
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who was a science and technology journalist
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en journalist indenfor videnskab og teknologi,
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who died of cancer.
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som døde af kræft.
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And what Miller did was have his family and friends write a post
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Hvad Miller gjorde var at få hans familie og venner til at skrive et indlæg
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that went out shortly after he died.
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som udkom kort efter hans død.
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Here's what he wrote in starting that out.
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Her er hvad han skrev:
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He said, "Here it is. I'm dead,
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Han sagde: "Her er den. Jeg er død
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and this is my last post to my blog.
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og dette er mit sidste indlæg på min blog.
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In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down
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På forhånd havde jeg bedt om, at når min krop endelig lukkede ned
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from the punishments of my cancer,
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og gav efter for afstraffelserne af min kræft,
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then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote --
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skulle min familie og venner offentliggøre denne besked jeg havde forberedt --
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the first part of the process
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den første del af processen
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of turning this from an active website to an archive."
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som skulle omdanne dette fra et aktivt website til et arkiv."
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Now, while as a journalist,
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Nuvel, som en journalist
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Miller's archive may have been better written
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har Miller's arkiv nok været bedre skrevet
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and more carefully curated than most,
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og mere omhyggeligt organiseret end de fleste,
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the fact of the matter is that all of us today
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men fakta er at vi i dag alle
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are creating an archive
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er i færd med at skabe et arkiv
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that's something completely different
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som er fuldstændig anderledes
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than anything that's been created
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end noget som er blevet skabt
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by any previous generation.
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af hvilken som helst tidligere generation.
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Consider a few stats for a moment.
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Overvej statistikkerne et øjeblik.
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Right now there are 48 hours of video
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Lige nu bliver 48 timers video
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being uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
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uploadet på YouTube hvert eneste minut.
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There are 200 million Tweets being posted every day.
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Der bliver Tweetet 200 millioner gange hver eneste dag.
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And the average Facebook user
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Og den gennemsnitlige Facebook-bruger
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is creating 90 pieces of content each month.
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skaber 90 nye stykker indhold hver måned.
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So when you think about your parents or your grandparents,
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Så når du tænker på dine forældre eller bedsteforældre,
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at best they may have created
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så har de måske højst lavet
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some photos or home videos,
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nogle billeder eller hjemmevideoer,
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or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.
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eller en dagbog som lever i en kasse et sted.
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But today we're all creating this incredibly rich digital archive
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Men i dag skaber vi alle dette imponerende rige digitale arkiv
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that's going to live in the cloud indefinitely,
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som kommer til at leve i "skyen" på ubestemt tid,
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years after we're gone.
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adskillige år efter vi selv er væk.
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And I think that's going to create some incredibly intriguing opportunities
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Og jeg tror det kommer til at skabe nogle fantastiske muligheder
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for technologists.
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for teknologer.
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Now to be clear, I'm a journalist and not a technologist,
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Lad mig gøre det klart, jeg er en journalist og ikke en teknolog,
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so what I'd like to do briefly
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så det jeg kunne tænke mig at gøre her kort
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is paint a picture
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er at male et billede af
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of what the present and the future are going to look like.
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hvordan nutiden og fremtiden kommer til at se ud.
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Now we're already seeing some services
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Vi oplever allerede nogle services
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that are designed to let us decide
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som er designet til at lade os bestemme
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what happens to our online profile and our social media accounts
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hvad der skal ske med vores online profil og vores konti på de sociale medier
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after we die.
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når vi er døde.
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One of them actually, fittingly enough,
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Det lykkedes faktisk én af dem
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found me when I checked into a deli
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at finde mig da jeg tjekkede ind på en deli
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at a restaurant in New York
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på en restaurant i New York
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on foursquare.
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på Foursquare.
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(Recording) Adam Ostrow: Hello.
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(Optagelse) Adam Ostrow: Hej.
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Death: Adam?
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Døden: Adam?
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AO: Yeah.
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AO: Ja.
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Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime,
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Døden: Døden kan fange dig hvor som helst, når som helst,
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even at the Organic.
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selv hos The Organic.
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AO: Who is this?
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AO: Hvem er det?
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Death: Go to ifidie.net
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Døden: Gå til ifidie.net
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before it's too late.
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før det er for sent.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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Adam Ostrow: Kind of creepy, right?
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Adam Ostrow: En smule skræmmende, ikke?
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So what that service does, quite simply,
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Det denne service gør er, ganske simpelt,
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is let you create a message or a video
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at lade dig skabe en besked eller en video
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that can be posted to Facebook after you die.
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som kan blive postet på Facebook efter du dør.
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Another service right now
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En anden service lige nu
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is called 1,000 Memories.
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hedder 1,000 Memories.
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And what this lets you do is create an online tribute to your loved ones,
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Den lader dig skabe en online hyldest til dine elskede,
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complete with photos and videos and stories
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fuldkommen med billeder, videoer og historier
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that they can post after you die.
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som de kan poste efter du dør.
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But what I think comes next is far more interesting.
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Men jeg tror det der kommer senere er meget mere interessant.
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Now a lot of you are probably familiar with Deb Roy
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Mange af jer kender sandsynligvis Deb Roy
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who, back in March,
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som, tilbage i marts,
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demonstrated how he was able to analyze more than 90,000 hours of home video.
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demonstrerede at han var i stand til at analysere mere end 90,000 timers hjemme video.
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I think as machines' ability
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Jeg tror at efterhånden som maskiners evne
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to understand human language and process vast amounts of data
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til at forstå sprog og behandle enorme mængder data
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continues to improve,
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bliver ved med at forbedres,
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it's going to become possible
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bliver det muligt
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to analyze an entire life's worth of content --
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at analysere et helt livs indhold --
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the Tweets, the photos, the videos, the blog posts --
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Tweetsne, billederne, videoerne og blog-indlæggene --
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that we're producing in such massive numbers.
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som vi producerer i så massive antal.
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And I think as that happens,
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Og jeg tror at når det sker,
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it's going to become possible for our digital personas
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bliver det muligt for vores digitale personlighed
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to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone
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at fortsætte med at interagere i den virkelige verden længe efter vi er væk
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thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating
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takket være vidtstraktheden af det indhold vi skaber
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and technology's ability to make sense of it all.
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og teknologiens evne til at skabe mening ud af det hele.
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Now we're already starting to see some experiments here.
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Vi er allerede begyndt at se nogle eksperimenter på dette område.
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One service called My Next Tweet
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En service kaldet My Next Tweet
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analyzes your entire Twitter stream, everything you've posted onto Twitter,
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analyserer hele din Twitter strøm, alt hvad du har postet på Twitter,
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to make some predictions as to what you might say next.
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for at lave nogle forudsigelser omkring den næste ting du vil sige.
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Well right now, as you can see,
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Lige nu er resultatet, som du kan se,
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the results can be somewhat comical.
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temmelig komisk.
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You can imagine what something like this might look like
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Man kan forestille sig hvordan sådan noget som dette måske ser ud
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five, 10 or 20 years from now
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om fem, 10 eller 20 år i fremtiden
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as our technical capabilities improve.
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efterhånden som vores teknologiske evner forbedres.
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Taking it a step further,
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For at tage det et skridt videre
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MIT's media lab is working on robots
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arbejder MIT's medie laboratorie på robotter
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that can interact more like humans.
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som kan interagere mere som mennesker.
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But what if those robots were able to interact
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Men hvad nu hvis disse robotter var i stand til at interagere
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based on the unique characteristics of a specific person
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baseret på de unikke karakteristika fra en specifik person
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based on the hundreds of thousands of pieces of content
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baseret på hundredetusindvis af stykker indhold
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that person produces in their lifetime?
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som personen producerer gennem sin livstid?
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Finally, think back to this famous scene
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Endelig, når man tænker tilbage på denne berømte scene
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from election night 2008
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fra valgaftenen i 2008
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back in the United States,
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tilbage i USA,
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where CNN beamed a live hologram
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hvor CNN bragte et live hologram
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of hip hop artist will.i.am into their studio
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af hip hop kunstneren will.i.am ind i deres studie
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for an interview with Anderson Cooper.
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til et interview med Anderson Cooper.
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What if we were able to use that same type of technology
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Hvad hvis vi var i stand til at bruge den samme slags teknologi
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to beam a representation of our loved ones into our living rooms --
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til at bringe en repræsentation af vores elskede ind i vores stue --
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interacting in a very lifelike way
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som interagerer på en meget livagtig måde
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based on all the content they created while they were alive?
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baseret på alt det indhold de havde skabt mens de levede.
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I think that's going to become completely possible
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Jeg tror det kommer til at blive fuldstændig muligt
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as the amount of data we're producing
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da den mængde data vi bruger
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and technology's ability to understand it
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og teknologiernes evne til at forstå det
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both expand exponentially.
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begge ekspanderer eksponentielt.
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Now in closing, I think what we all need to be thinking about
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Her til sidst synes jeg at vi alle burde tænke på
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is if we want that to become our reality --
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om vi vil have at dette skal blive vores virkelighed --
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and if so,
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og hvis det er tilfældet,
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what it means for a definition of life and everything that comes after it.
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hvad betyder det så for vores definition af liv og alt hvad der kommer efter det.
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Thank you very much.
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Mange tak
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(Applause)
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(Klapsalver)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Ostrow - JournalistAs editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web.
Why you should listen
Adam Ostrow is a new media entrepreneur and commentator. As editor in chief at Mashable, he is responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read independent news sites in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends, and individuals driving the current evolution of the Web.
Since joining Mashable in 2007, Ostrow has contributed more than 2,500 articles, and under his leadership the site’s audience has grown more than tenfold to 13 million unique visitors per month, with more than 3.6 million followers across social media sites as of June 2011.
Ostrow has been frequently quoted by numerous mainstream media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Times of London among others. He is a frequent guest on CNN, Bloomberg and NPR.
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