Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
Joan Blades et John Gable: Libérez-vous des bulles de filtres
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?
politiquement diversifiés ?
in a town full of progressives,
je vis dans une ville de progressifs
any conservative friends.
aucun ami conservateur.
d'une formidable diversité
in a Republican family
issu d'une famille républicaine
locally and at the national level.
républicaine au niveau local et national.
I've been in technology
dans la technologie
très progressive.
en Californie,
notoirement progressive.
Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal,
with a one-sentence petition:
avec une pétition d'une phrase :
censure the president
censurer le Président
facing the nation."
auxquels la Nation fait face. »
a very unifying petition in many ways.
très unificatrice de bien des façons.
for the country was to move on.
à faire pour le pays
I saw the polarization just continue.
j'ai vu la polarisation continuer.
si différemment
in other parts of the country.
dans d'autres coins du pays.
to get together with grassroots leaders
avec les principaux leaders
du clivage politique,
la chance de parler auparavant.
in the Christian Coalition,
de la Coalition chrétienne,
the way MoveOn is seen as on the left.
que MoveOn peut être à gauche.
showing up on Capitol Hill
à aller sur la colline du Capitole
leaders, my friend,
de la Coalition chrétienne, mon ami,
transformationnel pour moi.
have the opportunity
pourraient-ils avoir l'opportunité
that have very different views?
ayant des points de vue très différents ?
dans le Tennessee,
from a small coal mining town,
face à une petite ville minière :
for the first few years of my life,
Frankfort, Kentucky.
petite ville du Kentucky.
in small-town America,
des petites villes,
they're a little different.
ont quelques différences.
to a progressive area
vers l'ouest et une région progressive
for Netscape Navigator,
de Netscape Navigator,
and inspired by a vision:
et inspirés par une vision :
these different people around the world
à tous ces gens à travers le monde
de grandes décisions
that the whole world has to offer.
que le monde a à offrir.
to discriminate against each other
à nous discriminer
and decided to hate each other more.
et avons décidé de nous haïr plus.
too many people, too many ideas --
trop de gens, trop d'idées,
to filter it out a little bit.
pour filtrer cela.
avec lesquelles je suis d'accord,
who think just like me.
qui penseront comme moi.
in our beliefs.
plus extrêmes dans nos croyances.
of anybody who's different than we are.
envers quiconque différent de nous.
The modern world?
Au monde moderne ?
that technology is changing,
que la technologie change
why I started AllSides.com --
que j'ai lancé AllSides.com :
to free us from these filter bubbles.
de ces bulles de filtres.
technology that identifies bias,
identifiant les partis pris
perspectives side by side
différentes perspectives côte-à-côte
bubbles of news media.
de filtres des médias d'information.
of Washington, DC,
en dehors de Washington,
of cross-partisan bridge builders,
de bâtisseurs de ponts multipartisans
the fabric of our communities.
l'étoffe de nos communautés.
can be a strength,
peuvent être une force,
peuvent être complémentaires
les valeurs de tous
promenade avec John
about the work he was doing
qu'il effectuait
n'est pas une bonne chose.
or do collaborative problem-solving
ou résoudre de problème en collaborant
les mêmes faits.
to go on a walk,
vous propose une promenade,
the way I was thinking about things.
Cela a changé ma vision des choses.
information filter bubbles,
aux bulles d'information
and social filter bubbles.
aux bulles de filtres sociales.
nearly as smart as we think we are.
aussi intelligents que nous le pensons.
decisions intellectually.
nos décisions intellectuellement
we want to rationalize.
tout ce que nous voulons.
like Mr. Spock,
comme M. Spock,
like Captain Kirk,
comme le Capitaine Kirk
comme le Dr McCoy.
the new "Star Trek" crew,
le nouveau « Star Trek »,
fans de « Star Trek ».
with that kind of optimism?
dans un futur avec un tel optimisme ?
is a big deal -- very important.
est important, très important.
is very important.
est très important.
de la diversité à notre vie,
but relationship diversity.
d'informations mais de relations.
I mean big "D" diversity,
Diversité avec un grand D,
which are very important,
de race et de genre, ce qui est important,
of somebody freeing themselves
de quelqu'un se libérant
relationships lost or harmed
des relations perdues ou lésées
religion or whatever?
religieuses ou autres ?
as they talk about family members
en parlant de membres de leur famille
ou conversations de salon, ont été conçues
and personal differences.
politiques et personnelles.
viewpoints each invite two friends
différents invitent deux amis chacun
to some simple ground rules:
sur des règles fondamentales simples :
parler chacun son tour --
respect, taking turns --
en maternelle.
in kindergarten, right?
the topic you've agreed to talk about,
dont vous avez décidé de parler,
to people we care about.
les gens qui nous importent.
d'écoute en profondeur ;
in our own living rooms
des points de vue différents
and even love people
respecter, voire aimer, des gens
votre curiosité ?
you yearn to have?
aspirez-vous à avoir ?
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