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TED Radio Hour

Body Electric Part 6: Walk Into The Future

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 β€’ 21.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In part six: host Manoush Zomorodi digs into the preliminary results of the listener study with Columbia University researcher Keith Diaz. He shares the surprising β€” and encouraging β€” initial findings from more than 20,000 listeners who tried to incorporate movement breaks into their day.

Also on this episode, listener Dana Lopez Maile shares how the study was a "game changer" for her health. Yiliu Shen-Burke, founder of the augmented reality app SoftSpace, explains his vision of augmented reality. Finally, Manoush explores the future of screen time in a new era of artificial intelligence, and the inextricable convergence of humans and machines.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.0

Hey, it's Manouche.

0:17.5

Hello, Manouge.

0:18.5

And I'd like to introduce you to your you to take part in our study with Columbia University. The goal, to move more regularly

0:36.6

and see if we could change our screen-filled sedentary lives. Over 23,000 people signed up.

0:45.0

Dana was one of them, and she was all in.

0:48.0

I truly believe that this change of a lifestyle with five minutes of movement every 30 minutes is hopefully a game changer for me.

0:58.8

Ever since I heard Dana's voice memo, I've been wondering how it's going for her.

1:04.2

So when the study wrapped, she kindly agreed to fill me in on Zoom.

1:08.8

Hi Dana, how you doing?

1:11.2

I was just about to turn my camera off but since you have years off.

1:14.4

So Dana is 43 years old.

1:16.2

She lives in Dallas, Texas.

1:18.2

She works remotely in HR for Hyatt hotels.

1:22.0

The job requires spending a lot of time in her home office.

1:26.0

We're looking at three to four screens at a time and lots of spreadsheets.

1:32.0

I mean you can hear Dana is an extremely positive person and she is

1:36.8

okay with all that work. Yeah so it's what I call my happy place and I literally have something on the walls and says that.

1:45.2

I love my job and I've been working for the same company for 18 years.

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