Kirk Citron: And now, the real news

Translator: Matej Divjak Reviewer: Klavdija Cernilogar

We are drowning in news.

Utapljamo se v novicah.

Reuters alone puts out

Samo Reuters objavi

three and a half million news stories a year.

tri in pol milijona novic na leto.

That's just one source.

In to je samo en vir.

My question is: How many of those stories

Moje vprašanje je: Koliko teh zgodb

are actually going to matter in the long run?

bo dejansko pomembnih na dolgi rok?

That's the idea behind The Long News.

To je ideja za The Long News (Dolge novice).

It's a project by The Long Now Foundation,

To je projekt fundacije The Long Now Foundation,

which was founded by TEDsters including

ki so ga ustanovili TED-ovci, vključno s

Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand.

Kevinom Kellyjem in Stewartom Brandom.

And what we're looking for is news stories that might still matter

In kar iščemo, so novice, ki bodo lahko

50 or 100 or 10,000 years from now.

še vedno pomembne čez 50 ali 100 ali 10.000 let.

And when you look at the news through that filter,

In ko pogledate novice skozi ta filter,

a lot falls by the wayside.

jih veliko ostane ob robu.

To take the top stories from the A.P. this last year,

Če vzamete top zgodbe Associated Press-a v zadnjem letu:

is this going to matter in a decade?

A bo to važno čez desetletje? (Čudež na reki Hudson)

Or this?

Ali to? (Pokol v oporišču Fort Hood)

Or this?

Ali to? (Umrl je Michael Jackson)

Really?

Res? (Prašičja gripa)

Is this going to matter in 50 or 100 years?

A bo to važno čez 50 ali 100 let? (Afganistan)

Okay, that was kind of cool.

Ok, to je bilo še kar kul. (Ustoličenje Obame)

(Laughter)

(smeh)

But the top story of this past year was the economy,

Ampak najpomembnejša zgodba v preteklem letu

and I'm just betting that, sooner or later,

je bilo gospodarstvo. In stavim, da bo prej ali slej

this particular recession is going to be old news.

ta konkretna recesija "lanski sneg".

So, what kind of stories might

Torej, kakšne vrste zgodb lahko

make a difference for the future?

vplivajo na prihodnost?

Well, let's take science.

Vzemimo za primer znanost.

Someday, little robots will go

Nekega dne bodo šli majhni roboti

through our bloodstreams fixing things.

po našem ožilju in bodo popravljali stvari.

That someday is already here if you're a mouse.

Ta "nekega dne" je že tu, če ste miš.

Some recent stories:

Nekaj nedavnih zgodb:

nanobees zap tumors with real bee venom;

Nanočebele ubijajo tumorje s pravim čebeljim strupom.

they're sending genes into the brain;

Gene pošiljajo v možgane.

a robot they built that can crawl through the human body.

Naredili so robota, ki se lahko plazi po človeškem telesu.

What about resources? How are we going to feed nine billion people?

Kako pa je z viri? Kako bomo nahranili 9 milijard ljudi?

We're having trouble feeding six billion today.

Že s prehranitvijo šestih milijard imamo težave.

As we heard yesterday, there's over a billion people hungry.

Kot smo slišali včeraj, je na svetu več kot milijarda ljudi lačnih.

Britain will starve without genetically modified crops.

Britanija bo stradala brez gensko spremenjenih pridelkov.

Bill Gates, fortunately, has bet a billion on [agricultural] research.

Bill Gates je k sreči tvegal milijardo za raziskovanje v kmetijstvu.

What about global politics?

Kaj pa globalna politika?

The world's going to be very different when and if China sets the agenda,

Svet bo zelo drugačen, ko in če Kitajska postavi pravila,

and they may.

in to se kaj lahko zgodi.

They've overtaken the U.S. as the world's biggest car market,

Prehiteli so ZDA kot največji trg za avtomobile.

they've overtaken Germany as the largest exporter,

Prehiteli so Nemčijo kot največji izvoznik.

and they've started doing DNA tests on kids

In začeli so z DNK testi na otrocih,

to choose their careers.

da bi izbrali njihove kariere.

We're finding all kinds of ways to push back the limits of what we know.

Odkrivamo vsakovrstne načine za premikanje mej našega védenja.

Some recent discoveries:

Nekaj zadnjih odkritij:

There's an ant colony from Argentina that has now

Obstaja kolonija mravelj iz Argentine, ki se je

spread to every continent but Antarctica;

razširila na vse kontinente razen Antarktike.

there's a self-directed robot scientist that's made a discovery --

Obstaja samoupravljalen robot-znanstvenik, ki je prišel do odkritja.

soon, science may no longer need us,

Kmalu nas znanost morda ne bo več potrebovala.

and life may no longer need us either;

In morda nas tudi življenje ne bo več potrebovalo.

a microbe wakes up after 120,000 years.

Mikrob se je prebudil po 120.000 letih.

It seems that with or without us,

Zdi se, da bo z nami ali brez nas

life will go on.

življenje šlo naprej.

But my pick for the top Long News story of this past year

Vendar pa je po mojem mnenju glavna zgodba

was this one: water found on the moon.

Long News preteklega leta ta: Našli vodo na Luni.

Makes it a lot easier to put a colony up there.

To zelo olajša postavitev kolonije tam.

And if NASA doesn't do it, China might,

In če tega ne bo naredila NASA, jo bo morda Kitajska,

or somebody in this room might write a big check.

ali pa bo morda kdo v tem prostoru napisal velik ček.

My point is this:

Poanta vsega tega je:

In the long run, some news stories

Na dolgi rok so nekatere zgodbe

are more important than others.

pomembnejše od drugih.

(Applause)

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