Gen Z and the end of our Humanity | Isabella Muri | TEDxASL

tomorrow, okay, here on the left we have my grandmother and, like a traditional baby boomer, she would wake up on a Saturday morning, grab a big pile of her family's clothes, walk out her door and, along with her best friend , they were walking to a river two kilometers from their small house in Pinyon, Italy, where they spent the day simply washing these clothes and letting them dry and, of course, talking about the local village kids, moving up from generation to generation X when my mother was 15 years old and her typical Saturday afternoon consisted of climbing cherry trees and taking her dog on long, quiet walks, and yet now that I'm 15, I find that my Saturday afternoons are far from the tranquility of the rivers and cute puppies and I find myself running from the golf competition to the piano. from class to completing homework, designing and sourcing the fall/winter collection for a small fashion franchise I started last year called parody fiato and looking at these pretty drastic lifestyle changes I of course wondered what was going on caused this acceleration in the pace of life and without a shadow of a doubt, I determined that he had to be responsible, don't get me wrong.

I use technology for almost every aspect of my life. I wake up in the morning and check the weather app to see what the weather will be like. like that day, while my mom would have physically walked to the window and looked out while I eat breakfast, scroll through Instagram and check the news, and on the way to school listen to all my favorite music, but despite these obvious benefits of technology technology is eradicating fundamental values ​​that were ingrained in previous generations, specifically trust in truth and patience, so let's start with trust, when my parents were children, they trusted that with a solid education and work hard they could grow up and secure a good job for life that was the idea that they would grow up with school, a university degree, a postgraduate degree to specialize in a job and then, finally, retire, but technology has revolutionized this traditional model of our lives until it became one that could eventually eliminate the traditional nine.

I work five to five, if we look at the integration of technology in our workplaces, we see that many of the great inventions were designed to eliminate human labor. This Johnny, for example, was the first automated sewing machine and was one of the most important inventions. of the Industrial Revolution why because it replaced inconsistent human work with flawless machine execution, this elimination of human jobs has been happening for over 200 years and will continue to do so and now that artificial intelligence is on the horizon we will face the Fifth Industrial Revolution. that will transfigure the face of our workplaces this is Frederick Windsor Taylor and he was famous for his theories that sought to improve industrial efficiency he said in the past man has been first in the future the system must be first this beautifully sums up the idea Regardless, artificial intelligence will revolutionize many of our jobs.

In fact, according to a study published by the BBC, it is estimated that more than 800 million jobs will be automated in just over 10 years. This massive change will make the 12 to 15 occupations that members of Generation Z like are a reality. It is estimated that you and I have in a single lifetime, so the plan I was telling you about has become an ambiguous process and uncertain in which a master's degree may no longer be enough to guarantee us a stable job for life and thus, technology. has revolutionized trust in truth, the next thing we have is truth technology, which is simply this enormous plethora of opinions and beliefs and since you no longer need to be a published author to share your ideas, the role of the media as Guardians of the truth have disappeared, anyone can share anything on the Internet, regardless of its accuracy or veracity, in fact lies tend to spread faster than the truth on the Internet.

A study conducted at MIT solidified this observation where they found that false claims were 70 percent more likely to be shared on Twitter than on Twitter. true statements like those said by Mark Twain a lie can travel to the other side of the world while the truth is still lacing its boots this widespread lie on the Internet is being caused by a different aspect of social media technology according to a study by According to the Pew Research Center, more than two-thirds of adults receive at least some of their news on social media, and of that demographic, less than half specified Facebook as a source.

The problem is the software algorithms that decide that our news feeds are programmed to prioritize user attention over truth to optimize. Commitment, so technology no longer gives us the truth, but rather opinions and beliefs that are not necessarily founded. This has two fundamental effects: first, it causes tendencies in users to select information that adheres to their own belief system, also known as confirmation bias. and secondly, it creates groups of like-minded people whose vision is completely polarized because the only information they know is that which proves their already conceived notions and that is how technology has revolutionized the truth for generations and the last one standing.

Not for long patience, we have all seen the spinning beach ball of doom, it is a bitter indication of having to waste some precious moments of your life waiting for your web page to load. Ramesh Six Harmon, a computer scientist observes the viewing habits of more than 6.7 million users and found that users were willing to wait just two seconds before deciding that the page was taking too long to load and abandoned it after five seconds, more than 25 percent was the dropout rate and after 10 seconds half of his subjects were gone. Our brains hate waiting, so we speed through everything else, multitask, work on endless projects, and, unsurprisingly, the diagnosis of attention deficit disorder has skyrocketed.

According to a study published by the BBC, the average attention span of an adult fell from 12 seconds to 8 in less than a decade. The change in technology has made us feel greater internal pressure for instant gratification. The problem is that if we expect our relationships and our skills to work as fast as we expect our Wi-Fi to work, we won't have resilience when it comes to what matters most. parts of our lives that need to be nurtured our friends our families our communities our passions and so on, technology has revolutionized the patience of Generation Z, so in a world where technology will never stop developing and evolving, I would like to leave you with this appointment.

You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf. Now we should take advantage of this platform that only generation Z has offered at such an early pace in our lives and I tried to take advantage of this wave of technology through the little trendy franchise that I started was called parodia fiato, which means breathless in English. I watched a lot of u2 tutorials for setting up a website on Shopify and researched ways to link our products to our Instagram page. Why did I do this because I wanted to? created a platform where other breathless generations II had a one-stop shop where they could find all their fashion needs and therefore, in a world where technology has become fundamental to our societies, the only way for the generation To survive this Fifth Industrial Revolution is to embrace and preserve the values ​​that distinguish us as human beings from any piece of technology that may be invented, so even as we live our lives breathlessly and in fiato parody, remember to be patient with yourself, truthful and trustworthy with others, thank you.