We need to practice imagination just like athletes | Håkan Lidbo | TEDxMidAtlantic

Some animals have incredible abilities and senses that we wish we had, but we don't, so I built this because I wanted to know what it would be like to see the world like a horse, to be able to see from the side, back to front, but have a blind spot in front or like a hammerhead shark or seeing myself as in a computer game or maybe even stranger as a teenager not only can we regain the senses lost to the disabled, but we can now extend the senses beyond what nature gave us. gave from colleagues I built a tennis game for blind people or seeing blindfolded people, you play with sounds and music instead of a ball, that is, disabled people can sometimes compensate and develop a super sense, so this is a game for blind or better players because they have super hearing.

We also built a musical instrument that you control with your brain waves, the alpha and theta waves of the brain, which is when you are relaxed or focused and therefore you can control and compose music without using your body at all,

just

your thoughts and we were building a superhero. suits that block one sense and replace it with a super sense, so this helmet makes you blind, but our parking sensors point in all directions and are connected to vibration motors inside the helmet so you can see in 360 degrees, but with vibrations this superhero can listen to distant people with this directional microphone and talk to distant people through the built-in microphone and this directional speaker and the one wearing this superhero mask cannot express emotions through facial expressions, but the mask he has LED lights is connected to the Internet so I can express the collective emotions of the entire Internet in real time, but my favorite superpower, of course, is music.

I mean, how can you get people to do this? If you pray that military marches can do it, how can you make people do this? crazy people like this thousands of people when you play dubstep really loud can do it. I made music for the European Athletics Championships and the Swedish long jump star Michelle Tornadoes struggled on the first try on the second try I put on a hip-hop piece that I know she likes on the big speakers in the arena and started her career by adding some stimulating and energetic sounds and yes, we have a new Swedish album, so that's a musical doping that even legal people with Alzheimer's sometimes don't do.

They remember the names of the faces of their loved ones. Sometimes when they hear the music of their loved ones, they can wake up and remember not only the music but also their loved ones. So I believe that music comes from a fundamental part of human construction. old The musical instrument found is a flute that is 40,000 years old from a time when we shared the planet with Neanderthals and when you play it it has the same musical scale that we use today to compose most pop songs, as well I think music came to us through The Dawn of Mankind, but to find out if we humans are the only ones who can enjoy music, I give synthesizers to the monkeys so that Stockholm will soon see if they have musical abilities.

Maybe music is exclusive to our country. civilization on earth, so we made specially composed music and sent it to space nine years ago as a calling card of humanity, now it has traveled nine light years and still no response, so that was another project of mine that failed, but I am an artist. so it's not my job to succeed or find the answers, my job is to ask the questions and imagine and I think that

imagination

, which is the most important human superpower, I think it's the worst exploited natural resource on the planet and I think the most Of us have only explored a fraction of our potential

imagination

, but what happens?

The brain is a lump of fat that is trapped in complete silence in the dark trying to make sense of any information it receives, which are biochemical signals, if you ever meet the newborn child you may notice that it knows absolutely nothing but learns very fast so throughout your life we ​​build an inner world that is everything we see and everything we experience and everything we feel and when we experience something it is not so much the signal that enters but more them in the world that they already have Sometimes we see something that we don't have that is not yet in our world we experience something that is not yet in our world and we get confused and that's really good because then we expand and I think this is the purpose of art and music and we are building a world becoming more and more complex, so our internal worlds are also becoming more and more complex not long ago, when humans looked at the horizon in all directions and saw this domain of luck distorted and stuck in the sky and then the world must look like this, but to be able to see the problem from the outside from a place where we are not or not yet We

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a lot of imagination, we

need

to see the big picture, so here is the big picture: we are made of elements coming from stars that lived and died generations before our solar system was born and here matter became life and evolved, so we.

In reality, we are cousins ​​to bacteria, fungi, mushrooms and fish, ultimately humans and all the humans that have ever existed, only one remained there, that is us, so who would imagine that we, the naked apes, One day we would take over the entire planet? Because we can imagine, we can imagine. that the people around us can be trusted so we can collaborate and we can imagine that people we don't even know can be good so we can trade and travel, we can learn, we can make music and art and stories that bring us together. So this unique power that we have allows us to change the world today we have some pretty big problems to solve we need a lot of imagination I think it should be our new superpower and I think it can be done I think it's a question of training we go to seminars to listen to the people talk about creativity and new ideas like I'm doing now but does it make you more creative?

It's a bit like buying a book on how to lose weight. weight you have to exercise to be creative you have to create to be innovative you have to make real innovations so my colleagues organize training camps for those who want to improve their idea generation skills and we also develop a game where you have to propose a totally new idea in three minutes and present it to the other players in one minute because speed is important because you don't have time to think about obstacles playing together is important because all the great innovations have been made by people people who collaborate having fun is also very important this is a musical instrument that takes the three and six colors of the Rubik's cube so you can program with us when it is very difficult to program an instrument because you have to think in 3d this is a kind of philosophy machine that generates big questions about humanity and the future but at the same time it generates music and interacts by moving these three cubes to project that force you to non-linear thinking.

I have a coworking space in Stockholm called the room Tegan and we are 11 people there we work with prototyping and programming and electronics and architecture and film and robots and games and music we solve problems with new ideas and with imagination there is a problem: airports They are a place where people are sometimes nervous and afraid to fly. or

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feel uncomfortable, can we fix that with the drum machine? Yes, if it's as big as we are, we have to make friends to be able to make music. Pedestrian tunnels are the most hated parts of urban infrastructure, people think they are ugly and scary, but we have to go through them.

Building bridges instead of tunnels will be very expensive, so how can we fix it? So we created a system so that if he sees a note in a tunnel, the tunnel responds with the same note but with a beautiful chorus. like a guardian angel and the system also remembers the notes of all the citizens who sing over time each tunnel develops a unique musical dialect today we make robots to be our slaves is that the best we can imagine we made 25 simple robots that they can only move forward but they all carry the sign that says help we lost please point us in the right direction so this robot had to rely on the kindness of people and this is Anna she is a robot with built in disabilities could you do it?

It doesn't move very well, it's visual. She is hearing impaired, gets lost easily and has autism, but unlike other robots she is very open about disabilities, it is not easy being a robot and I think it is very good for us to know that, to avoid possible future racism between robots , the sounds in the city around us stress us out and make us sick and it is not easy to avoid, but because it comes with urban life, is there a way to make those sounds inspiring? So we created an app that transforms any sound into funky music in less than one.

Secondly, we took the interface of this app and I made it really big, so making music becomes really different or creating music with candy to compose a song and then immediately music and alcohol have always been a very good combination , so we built a bar where guests create music along with drinks and we are building by far the largest computer game in the world. The distance to the moon is 385,000 kilometers, so by connecting radio amateurs from all over Europe, one direction is the signal to the moon and the first to catch the bounce signal wins the ball, so new ideas do not They are always very practical or profitable, but they are always new because I want to make imagination my superpower, imagination made us who we are, so I think we should make imagination a compulsory subject in school.

I think we should

practice

practicing imagination like

athletes

. I think we should make imagination our superpower. Thank you.