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Adam Ostrow - Journalist
As editor in chief at Mashable, Adam Ostrow covers the tech, trends and people driving the evolution of the Web.

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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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TEDGlobal 2011

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Après la dernière mise à jour de votre statut

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Nous sommes nombreux à être présents sur les sites de média sociaux, sous la forme d'une personnalité virtuelle constituée de changements de statuts, de Tweets, et de connexions stockés sur Internet. Adam Ostrow pose une grande question: qu'advient-il de cette personnalité après notre mort? Se pourrait-il... qu'elle continue de vivre?
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By the end of this year,
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there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet
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il y aura près de 1 million de personnes
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that actively use social networking sites.
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à utiliser activement les sites de réseautage.
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The one thing that all of them have in common
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Ce que ces personnes ont en commun
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is that they're going to die.
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est qu'elles mourront un jour.
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While that might be a somewhat morbid thought,
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C'est une pensée un peu morbide,
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I think it has some really profound implications
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mais dont les implications très profondes
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that are worth exploring.
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demandent à êtres explorées.
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What first got me thinking about this
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Ce qui m'a poussé à m'intéresser à cela,
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was a blog post authored earlier this year by Derek K. Miller,
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c'est un message de Derek K. Miller,
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who was a science and technology journalist
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un journaliste en science et technologies
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who died of cancer.
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qui est mort d'un cancer.
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And what Miller did was have his family and friends write a post
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Miller a demandé à ses proches d'écrire un message
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that went out shortly after he died.
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publié peu après sa mort.
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Here's what he wrote in starting that out.
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Voici ce qu'il a commencé par écrire:
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He said, "Here it is. I'm dead,
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"Ca y est, je suis mort
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and this is my last post to my blog.
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et voici mon dernier message sur ce blog.
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In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down
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Par avance, j'ai demandé à mes proches,
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from the punishments of my cancer,
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lorsque le cancer aurait eu raison de mon corps,
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then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote --
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de publier ce message que j'ai écrit,
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the first part of the process
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débutant ainsi le processus
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of turning this from an active website to an archive."
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de transformation de ce site actif en une archive."
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Now, while as a journalist,
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Miller étant journaliste,
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Miller's archive may have been better written
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son archive est certainement mieux écrite
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and more carefully curated than most,
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et mieux organisée que les autres,
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the fact of the matter is that all of us today
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mais le fait est qu'aujourd'hui
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are creating an archive
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nous créons tous une archive
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that's something completely different
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totalement différente
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than anything that's been created
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de tout ce qui a pu être créé
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by any previous generation.
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par aucune autre génération.
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Consider a few stats for a moment.
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Quelques statistiques:
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Right now there are 48 hours of video
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48 heures de vidéos sont téléversées
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being uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
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sur YouTube toutes les minutes.
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There are 200 million Tweets being posted every day.
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On poste 200 millions de Tweets par jour.
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And the average Facebook user
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Et l'utilisateur moyen de Facebook
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is creating 90 pieces of content each month.
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poste 90 interventions par mois.
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So when you think about your parents or your grandparents,
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Vos parents ou grand-parents par exemple,
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at best they may have created
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ont tout au plus pris des photos,
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some photos or home videos,
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réalisé des vidéos amateur,
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or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.
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ou écrit un journal enfermé dans une boîte.
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But today we're all creating this incredibly rich digital archive
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Mais aujourd'hui nous créons tous une archive numérique très riche
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that's going to live in the cloud indefinitely,
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qui vivra sur Internet indéfiniment,
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years after we're gone.
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longtemps après que nous ne serons plus là.
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And I think that's going to create some incredibly intriguing opportunities
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Je pense que cela créera des opportunités vraiment fascinantes
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for technologists.
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pour les technologues.
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Now to be clear, I'm a journalist and not a technologist,
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Soyons clairs, je suis journaliste et pas technologue,
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so what I'd like to do briefly
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donc j'aimerais
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is paint a picture
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décrire brièvement
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of what the present and the future are going to look like.
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ce à quoi le présent et le futur vont ressembler.
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Now we're already seeing some services
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Il y a déjà des services
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that are designed to let us decide
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conçus pour que nous décidions
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what happens to our online profile and our social media accounts
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de l'avenir de nos profils et de nos comptes de sites de réseautage
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after we die.
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après notre mort.
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One of them actually, fittingly enough,
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L'un d'eux, justement,
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found me when I checked into a deli
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m'a trouvé dans la charcuterie
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at a restaurant in New York
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d'un restaurant à New York
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on foursquare.
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sur Foursquare.
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(Recording) Adam Ostrow: Hello.
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Allo?
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Death: Adam?
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Adam?
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AO: Yeah.
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Oui.
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Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime,
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La Mort peut frapper n'importe où et n'importe quand,
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even at the Organic.
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même au rayon bio.
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AO: Who is this?
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Qui est-ce?
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Death: Go to ifidie.net
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Allez sur ifidie.net
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before it's too late.
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avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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Adam Ostrow: Kind of creepy, right?
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Flippant, non?
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So what that service does, quite simply,
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Ce service
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is let you create a message or a video
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permet de créer un message ou une vidéo
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that can be posted to Facebook after you die.
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à poster sur Facebook à votre mort.
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Another service right now
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Le service suivant
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is called 1,000 Memories.
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s'appelle 1000 Memories.
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And what this lets you do is create an online tribute to your loved ones,
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Il vous permet de créer un hommage à vos proches en ligne
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complete with photos and videos and stories
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avec photos, vidéos, et récits
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that they can post after you die.
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qu'ils postent à votre mort.
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But what I think comes next is far more interesting.
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Mais ce qui suit est bien plus intéressant.
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Now a lot of you are probably familiar with Deb Roy
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Vous connaissez probablement Deb Roy
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who, back in March,
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qui en Mars dernier
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demonstrated how he was able to analyze more than 90,000 hours of home video.
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a démontré qu'il pouvait analyser plus de 90 000 heures de vidéos amateur.
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I think as machines' ability
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to understand human language and process vast amounts of data
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à comprendre le langage humain et à traiter de grandes quantités de données
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continues to improve,
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qui continue de s'améliorer,
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it's going to become possible
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il sera bientôt possible
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to analyze an entire life's worth of content --
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d'analyser le contenu de toute une vie,
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the Tweets, the photos, the videos, the blog posts --
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les Tweets, photos, vidéos, messages,
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that we're producing in such massive numbers.
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que nous produisons en si grand nombre.
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And I think as that happens,
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it's going to become possible for our digital personas
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nos personnages virtuels pourront
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to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone
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continuer d'interagir avec le monde réel bien après notre mort
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thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating
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grâce à la quantité énorme d'informations que nous créons
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and technology's ability to make sense of it all.
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et à la capacité de la technologie à les comprendre.
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Now we're already starting to see some experiments here.
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On commence déjà à expérimenter:
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One service called My Next Tweet
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"My Next Tweet"
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analyzes your entire Twitter stream, everything you've posted onto Twitter,
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analyse tous vos Tweets
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to make some predictions as to what you might say next.
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pour prédire ce que vous direz peut-être ensuite.
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Well right now, as you can see,
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the results can be somewhat comical.
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le résultat est un peu comique.
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You can imagine what something like this might look like
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five, 10 or 20 years from now
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d'ici 5, 10, ou 20 ans
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as our technical capabilities improve.
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lorsque la technologie aura évolué.
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Taking it a step further,
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MIT's media lab is working on robots
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le M.I.T. travaille sur des robots
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that can interact more like humans.
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qui interagissent comme des humains.
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But what if those robots were able to interact
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based on the unique characteristics of a specific person
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sur la base des caractéristiques propres à une personne particulière,
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based on the hundreds of thousands of pieces of content
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dégagées du contenu produit par une personne
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that person produces in their lifetime?
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tout au long de sa vie?
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Finally, think back to this famous scene
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from election night 2008
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du soir d'élection en 2008
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back in the United States,
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aux Etats-Unis
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where CNN beamed a live hologram
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où CNN a projeté l'hologramme
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of hip hop artist will.i.am into their studio
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du rappeur Will.I.Am dans leur studio
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for an interview with Anderson Cooper.
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lors d'une interview avec Anderson Cooper.
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What if we were able to use that same type of technology
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to beam a representation of our loved ones into our living rooms --
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pour projeter chez nous l'image d'un proche
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interacting in a very lifelike way
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qui interagirait de façon très naturelle
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based on all the content they created while they were alive?
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en fonction de ce qu'il a produit de son vivant?
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I think that's going to become completely possible
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Je pense que cela deviendra possible
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as the amount of data we're producing
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avec l'augmentation exponentielle
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and technology's ability to understand it
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de la quantité de données
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both expand exponentially.
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et de la capacité de la technologie à les interpréter.
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Now in closing, I think what we all need to be thinking about
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Pour conclure, demandons-nous si nous souhaitons
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is if we want that to become our reality --
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que cela devienne notre réalité
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and if so,
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et si oui,
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what it means for a definition of life and everything that comes after it.
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en quoi cela change-t-il notre définition de la vie et de ce qui vient après?
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Thank you very much.
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Merci beaucoup.
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(Applause)
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(Applaudissements)
Translated by Rémy Peyroux
Reviewed by Shadia Ramsahye

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Ostrow - Journalist
As 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.

More profile about the speaker
Adam Ostrow | Speaker | TED.com