Dave Eggers: Writing For A Better Future

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Fiction can serve as a window into multiple realities—to imagine different futures or understand our own past. This hour, author and TED speaker Dave Eggers talks technology, education, and the healing power of writing.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:03.4	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.1	Deliver it at Ted Conferences.
0:09.8	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:11.9	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
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0:20.0	You just don't know what you're gonna find.
0:21.8	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.2	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.7	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:38.4	I'm Anouche Zomarodi.
0:40.2	And before I introduce our special guest for the hour,
0:44.3	I want to play a variation on a game that my kids love to play.
0:48.5	It's called Two Truths and the Lie.
0:52.1	So I'm gonna list three apps, Smartphone Apps.
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