Eric Haseltine: What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?
Eric Haseltine: Vad kommer bli nästa vetenskapliga genombrott?
Eric Haseltine applies discoveries about the brain to innovation and forecasting game-changing advances in science and technology. Full bio
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my passion for science.
min passion för vetenskap.
that takes baby steps.
som gör små framsteg.
that takes enormous leaps.
som tar enorma kliv.
that turns the world on its head.
som vänder världen upp och ner.
about two ideas that might do this.
två idéer som kanske gör just det.
most are flat wrong,
seldom have the impact
har sällan den påverkan
two ideas in particular,
två specifika idéer
compulsively thorough doctor
tvångsmässigt grundlig läkare
soon after giving birth
efter förlossningen
at one of the clinics than at the other.
den ena kliniken än på den andra.
what the difference was that caused this,
skillnaden som orsakade detta,
until he happened to autopsy a doctor
han genomförde en obduktion på en läkare
to those of the mothers who were dying.
med de som de döda mammorna haft.
get the same thing as new mothers?
få samma sak som nya mödrar?
everything the doctor had done
allt som läkaren hade gjort
that he'd been autopsying a corpse.
genomfört en obduktion på ett lik.
in his wound that killed him?
som dödat honom?
for any connection he could
efter alla samband han kunde
and dead mothers in his delivery room,
och mödrarna från hans förlossningssal
with the high death rate,
med den höga dödssiffran,
after autopsying corpses in the morgue.
att ha genomfört obduktioner.
the doctors' hands
to sterilize their hands,
att sterilisera sina händer
had discovered infectious disease.
upptäckte infektionssjukdomen.
thought he was crazy,
tyckte att han var galen,
and had for hundreds of years,
och hade gjort i hundratals år,
called miasmas caused disease,
och stank orsakade sjukdom,
that you couldn't see.
som man inte kunde se.
for Frenchman Louis Pasteur
att bevisa att Semmelweis hade rätt.
why milk and beer spoiled so often.
varför mjölk och öl ruttnade så snabbt.
på grund av bakterier.
could kill people in exactly the same way
kunde döda människor på samma sätt
to talk about tonight, in two ideas.
om ikväll, genom två idéer.
that he was a revolutionary.
att han var revolutionär.
to a completely new world.
för en helt ny värld.
that bacteria killed people.
att bakterier dödade människor.
that people kept close to their heart.
som folk hade nära till hjärtat.
Bacteria killed people.
Bakterier gör det.
I want to talk about tonight.
jag vill prata om ikväll.
to a completely new universe,
till ett helt nytt universum,
to an entirely new world
våra ögon till en ny värld
Bell Laboratory
på Bell Laboratory
were taking his brilliant inventions
tog hans geniala uppfinningar
for figuring out
för att lista ut
to see finer and finer details
att se ännu mer detaljrikt
or ever could be seen.
eller någonsin kan.
going to understand how cells work,
hur celler fungerar,
150th the size of a head of a pin
en 150-dels nålshuvud stort
called the law of physics,
is the thing called the diffraction limit.
som kallas brytningsgränsen.
when you go to a doctor's office,
som när man går till optikern
oavsett hur bra glasögon du har.
no matter how good glasses you have.
figured out how to take a tiny molecule
listade ut hur man kunde skapa en molekyl
bästa mikroskopet kunde se
the best microscope could see
are not so unbreakable after all."
inte är obrytbara trots allt."
in his friend's living room.
i hans väns vardagsrum.
got different protein molecules
fick olika proteinmolekyler
to turn very, very fuzzy blurs
ändra väldigt suddiga bilder
of unprecedented and startling clarity.
av aldrig tidigare skådad skärpa.
with unprecedented detail
med skärpa utan motstycke
a better handle on things like cancer.
få en bättre fattningsförmåga
Betzig was satisfied there?
that he invented were just too slow.
var helt enkelt för långsamt.
if you take two very, very fine patterns
man tar två väldigt finmaskiga mönster
be able to see.
att ta en väldigt suddig bild på en cell
to taking a really blurry image of a cell
light patterns across it
we don't know what they're doing.
vet någonting om.
we'll have a better handle on life itself.
får vi en bättre bild av livet själv.
green globs that you see?
klickarna ni ser?
that protect other molecules
som skyddar andra molekyler
hijack those to infect cells.
för att infektera celler.
wormlike things moving around?
maskliknande sakerna?
also climb down those things
deep inside a cell,
djupt inne i cellen
of curing viral diseases like AIDS.
att bota virussjukdomar som AIDS.
our eyes to a completely new world.
har öppnat en helt ny värld för oss.
any cherished beliefs.
några väl omtyckta idéer.
squirming with an interesting idea:
som fått forskare att skruva på sig:
think he's a crackpot.
tycker att han är en galenpanna.
consequence of living.
av att vara vid liv.
vad vi kallar fria radikaler.
what we call free radicals.
there is something called immortality:
att det finns något som är odödligt:
into giant walking malignant tumors.
stora vandrande elakartade tumörer.
but could de Grey be on to something?
men kan de Grey vara något på spåret?
seeing him as a crackpot.
att se honom som en galenpanna.
as a computer scientist,
in biology from Cambridge,
i biologi från Cambridge,
some very significant work
betydelsefulla arbeten
and a bunch of other stuff.
och mycket annat.
an antiaging foundation
en stiftelse mot åldrande
seven different causes of aging,
sju olika orsaker till åldrade,
of fixes for every single one of them.
varenda en av dem.
is that our mitochondrial DNA mutates,
är t ex att vårt mitokondriala DNA muterar
and our cells lose energy.
för att cellerna förlorar energi.
argumenterat framgångsrikt för
a convincing case,
is going to revolutionize our lifespans.
kommer revolutionera vår livslängd.
and most of us are not lobsters.
och de flesta av oss är inte humrar.
Darwins and Einsteins out there,
Darwins och Einsteins där ute,
alive today than during Darwin's time.
alive today as Einstein.
än på Einsteins tid.
in the population has skyrocketed,
till befolkning har ökat kraftigt,
that there's one of them out there
att det finns en av dem där ute
and I don't know about you,
sätta våra liv i gungning,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eric Haseltine - Author, futurist, innovatorEric Haseltine applies discoveries about the brain to innovation and forecasting game-changing advances in science and technology.
Why you should listen
Dr. Eric Haseltine is a neuroscientist and futurist who has applied a brain-centered approach to help organizations in aerospace, entertainment, healthcare, consumer products and national security transform and innovate. He is the author of Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories. For five years, he wrote a monthly column on the brain for Discover magazine and is a frequent contributor to Psychology Today's web site, where his popular blog on the brain has garnered over 800,000 views. Haseltine received the Distinguished Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Management and has published 41 patents and patent applications in optics, media and entertainment technology.
In 1992 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering to help found the Virtual Reality Studio, which he ultimately ran until his departure from Disney in 2002. When he left Disney, Haseltine was executive vice president of Imagineering and head of R&D for the entire Disney Corporation, including film, television, theme parks, Internet and consumer products.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Eric joined the National Security Agency to run its Research Directorate. Three years later, he was promoted to associate of director of National Intelligence, where he oversaw all science and technology efforts within the United States Intelligence Community as well as fostering development innovative new technologies for countering cyber threats and terrorism. For his work on counter-terrorism technologies, he received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal in 2007.
Haseltine serves on numerous boards, and is an active consultant, speaker and writer. Over the past three years, he has focused heavily on developing innovation strategies and consumer applications for the Internet of Things, virtual reality and augmented reality.
Haseltine continues to do basic research in neuroscience, with his most recent publications focusing on the mind-body health connection and exploitation of big-data to uncover subtle, but important trends in mental and physical health.
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