YoVDO

My Daughter, My Wife, Our Robot, and the Quest for Immortality

Offered By: TED via YouTube

Tags

TED Courses Ethics Courses Creativity Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore a captivating TED talk featuring Martine Rothblatt, founder of Sirius XM satellite radio and current CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Delve into Rothblatt's remarkable journey, from developing life-saving medicines for rare diseases to her groundbreaking efforts in digital consciousness preservation. Discover how her personal experiences, including saving her daughter's life with a drug her company produced, have shaped her innovative pursuits. Learn about her ambitious project to digitally preserve her wife's consciousness and create a companion robot. Through an engaging onstage conversation with TED's Chris Anderson, gain insights into Rothblatt's powerful narrative of love, identity, creativity, and the boundless potential of human ingenuity. Witness a thought-provoking discussion that challenges conventional notions of life, death, and the future of human consciousness.

Syllabus

Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality


Taught by

TED

Related Courses

A Crash Course on Creativity
Stanford University via NovoEd
Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Human Computer Interaction
Independent
Ser más creativos
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México via Coursera
Ideas of the Twentieth Century
The University of Texas at Austin via edX