China es un gran laboratorio de innovación, dice la experta minorista Angela Wang, y, en este laboratorio, todo tiene lugar en los teléfonos de las personas. 500 millones de consumidores chinos, el equivalente de la suma de las poblaciones de EE.UU., Reino Unido y Alemania, realizan compras regularmente a través de plataformas móviles, incluso en tiendas físicas. ¿Qué significará esta transformación para el futuro de las compras? Obtenga más información sobre el nuevo negocio habitual, donde todo es ultra conveniente, ultraflexible y ultrasocial.

Joan Blades and John Gable want you to make friends with people who vote differently than you do. A pair of political opposites, the two longtime pals know the value of engaging in honest conversations with people you don't immediately agree with. Join them as they explain how to bridge the gaps in understanding between people on opposite sides of the political spectrum -- and create opportunities for mutual listening and consideration (and, maybe, lasting friendships).

Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring, informative conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Thrun discusses the progress of deep learning, why we shouldn't fear runaway AI and how society will be better off if dull, tedious work is done with the help of machines. "Only one percent of interesting things have been invented yet," Thrun says. "I believe all of us are insanely creative ... [AI] will empower us to turn creativity into action."

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton wants everyone on earth to have access to basic health care, no matter how hard it is to reach them. With his start-up Zipline, he has created the world's first drone delivery system to operate at national scale, transporting blood and plasma to remote clinics in East Africa with a fleet of electric autonomous aircraft. Find out how Rinaudo Cliffton and his team are working to transform health care logistics throughout the world -- and inspiring the next generation of engineers along the way.

The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares insights and eye-opening stats about their dominance and motivation -- and what happens when a society prizes shareholder value over everything else. Followed by a Q&A with TED Curator Chris Anderson. (Note: This talk contains graphic language.)

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

Fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia has left the countryside riddled with land mines that maim and kill innocent people who happen across them. To help keep communities safe from harm, TED Resident Carlos Bautista is developing an app to track land mines -- and direct travelers away from them. Learn more about how this potentially life-saving tool could promote peace in countries plagued by land mines once conflicts end.

Machines that can think, learn and adapt are coming -- and that could mean that we humans will end up with significant unemployment. What should we do about it? In a straightforward talk about a controversial idea, futurist Martin Ford makes the case for separating income from traditional work and instituting a universal basic income.

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Con más de la mitad de la población mundial viviendo en las ciudades, una cosa es innegable somos una especie urbana. Mitad videojuego, mitad herramienta de diseño y planificación urbana "Cities: Skylines" anima a las personas a usar su creatividad y expresión personal para repensar las ciudades del mañana.

La diseñadora Karoliina Korppoo nos da un tour a través de algunos extraordinarios lugares que los usuarios han creado, desde ciudades futuristas de fantasía hasta paisajes notablemente realistas.

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