Moore’s Law tells that the capacity of our computers doubles every two years, while we will pay less for them. By following this pattern, technology will become more and more human-related and present in our daily lives.

Technology impacting humanity

Communication

Remember Tory Story? Computer animation is more demanded than ever. It is the process of generating animated images. In computer animation, figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

Computer animation 

Animations will never replace actors as actors will never replace animations. Still, there’s a constant need of human intervention so that animations could realistically relate to film live expectations.

Animations vs Actors

Creativity is the answer for the question of how technology can positively impact humanity. Introduced by George Buhnici, ProTV. Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: May 28th, 2017 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: http://www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival/ Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival/ Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/EidosFoundation

Technology and Change

The Modern World as a Story of Computers |  Alvy Ray Smith Co-Founder, PIXAR at #UNFINISHED17

In a world dominated by experts, successful businesses need generalists. A flexible and curious mind goes a long way in overcoming challenges and seeing things through to the finish line. That’s because generalists know how to seek, absorb and capitalize on learning new information, constantly.

The world needs generalists

Have a broad-and-balanced education. That's the key to handle both social and technical skills.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Learn both hard & soft skills

Author David Epstein argues that modern work demands a higher level of movement between different concepts and that “mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power.”&nbsp;If you want to achieve more as an entrepreneur, you must regularly expose yourself to new ideas across multiple categories.

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The difference between success and failure often comes down to the ability to quickly pivot and correct course. This requires many things of an entrepreneur, including creativity, confidence and collaboration.

Work Reinvented

The best entrepreneurs are generalists, not experts | Silicon Canals

There has been widely debated if teenagers should be trusted in taking their own decisions. Even though teenagehood is quite a blurry and discovery process, they know intrinsically and intuitively the secret rules which will govern the future society in which they will live.

Teenagers know themselves as much as adults do

Teenagers have an intuitive understanding of the world that it will be. They will live in a world made up primarily and created by their generation, therefore, they have a better understanding of their generation and they can easily adapt to life’s challenges in an universe which can be easily foreseen and understood by them.

Intuitive understanding

Teenagers are bombarded with priorities other people want from them. Peer pressure that comes from people trying to use teenagers, be they companies, social or political groups. These peers are looking to manipulate and deviate them from the healthy path that they should go on.

Obstacles in trusting teenagers

Debate is a wondrous pedagogical instrument. It asks of its practitioners to don views that are not their own and argue fervently in favour of them. Through the research a debate demands, you invariably begin to understand more of your collocutor's inner workings. You transform them from opponent to conversation partner – and this paves the way to a better, more open society. This debate tackles the topic of whether teenagers ought to be trusted to set their own priorities. Four speakers, who do not necessarily believe in what they will be uttering, will use argumentative discourse in an attempt to persuade you of their team's views. ȘERBAN PITIC and ANDREI OLARU debating with DAVID MOSCOVICI and OCTAVIAN NICA. Introduced by NAE ȘOVĂIALĂ Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: September, 2020 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8

Confronting Silence

Debating Trust and Teenagers at UNFINISHED 20

Family, education, and all social backgrounds in which we develop influence us on understanding our own bodies, feelings, sexuality, and intimate relationships. From a very young age, we start to develop our own borders of touching liberty. Some may not feel comfortable when being touched, others may find comfort in physical interactions as emotional bridges.

Touching liberty and intimacy 

There are four types of intimacy:<ul><li>Experimental intimacy – bonding during leisure activities</li><li>Emotional intimacy – sharing feelings and emotions</li><li>Intellectual intimacy – sharing ideas and opinions</li><li>Sexual intimacy – engaging in sensual sexual activities</li></ul>

The four types of intimacy

It appears when an individual is reluctant to intimate connections (whether experimental, emotional, intellectual, or sexual) as the fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, and anxiety kick in and stop the social process of bonding.

Fear of intimacy

Laura, Tómas, and Christian venture into an emotional journey through their intimacy as borders begin to fade. Go along with them and overcome your fears!

Touch Me Not – overcoming the fear of intimacy 

Director Adina Pintilie, who won the Golden Bear and Best Debut Feature Awards at the Berlin International Film Festival last year, will share on her film project, that of a filmmaker and her characters venturing into a personal research project about intimacy. And the craving for intimacy yet also the deep fear of it. How to overcome old patterns, defence mechanisms and taboos, how to cut the cord and finally be free? Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves. She will tell how she is now taking the cultural/educational project on the road.

Adina Pintilie: Touch Me Not, The Politics of the Body | UNFINISHED19

We are all riven by irrational forces. The good news is that those forces are predictable. If we understand the irrational forces that are driving our behavior, we can make better decisions.

Love driven by irrational forces

Research shows that our health, happiness, and overall life satisfaction hinge on the quality of our relationships. Society tells us that this is the most important decision that we can make.

Relationships are important 

I am ready to date? Who should I date? Should we break up? Should we get married? Understanding how we make decisions can help us avoid mistakes.

Relationships are a series of decisions

Behavioral science is the method through which decisions are understood and applied in real-life situations. Relationships are the result of our own decisions made towards a partner.

Behavioral science applied in relationships

<ul><li>Pose with a less attractive decoy.</li><li>Stop talking to your ex.</li><li>Limit your options.</li><li>Mind your mindset.</li><li>Give people a chance.</li><li>End on a high note.</li></ul>

6 ways behavioral science tips help you make better decisions

Modern dating is experiencing a seismic shift. Dating apps offer seemingly infinite options. We're faced with far more questions than ever before: Who should I date? Should I play hard to get? Should we break up? Should we get married? With her dual expertise in the areas of decision-making and relationship science, Logan Ury is here to help. In this talk she'll provide practical, research-backed ways to navigate the complexities of dating today.

Irrationally ever after

Logan Ury: Irrationally Ever After | UNFINISHED19

Too often our personal dramas are shrouded in secrecy, shame, and guilt. There are powerful healing forces that take place in public spaces, especially in artistic backgrounds.

The public square is a place for healing

Whether it happens in hospitals, on stage, schools, prisons, or business encounters, drama therapy promotes mental health and a person’s abilities and potential at crossroads. Creative art therapies do require overcoming and unleashing the drama inside.&nbsp;

Drama therapy as a tool for personal growth

Moving from the unconscious to conscious, and enabling spirits to heal in public may seem a very tough process. But it’s in the way that we chose to understand and treat drama, then we will free ourselves.

Shifting from private to public 

Psychologist Jack Saul and couples therapist Esther Perel have partnered numerous times to tackle problems that were too big to handle within the four corners of their offices. Over the years they have come together to work with refugees and their post-9/11 Lower Manhattan community to produce theater that engages the public as a creative collaborator. Jack, who has worked for over 30 years on collective trauma, will speak about his new public arts project debuting this week at UNFINISHED – “Moral Injuries of War.” Esther, the iconic therapist, has been breaking new ground on the massive shifts in today’s relationships, both in love and work. Taking the pulse of our cultural transition through the lens of sexuality, she will speak about her podcasts “Where Should We Begin?” And “How’s Work?” Too often our personal dramas are shrouded in secrecy, shame and guilt. Both projects take the hidden into the public square. In “Moral Injuries of War,” we are asked to take responsibility for the forces that lead to private suffering; in Esther’s podcasts, we are invited to listen deeply to others and see ourselves in the mirror.

Private Drama to Public Healing | UNFINISHED19

Poetry can help us restructuring our visioning, and imagining the world that we want to live in. The difference between poetry and rhetoric is meaning, fearlessness, and the ability to transform words into action. A poet writes to scale the balances of power.

Poetry is activism for a better world

Ideas, language, art, and culture can travel beyond borders and push us to break down nation-states that we are so attached to and flags that we write so passionately and kill for. Poetry requires decolonizing the imagination.

The nomadic power of ideas

How can young people be engaged in the political process? Music, poetry, dance, and culture are the key elements that can incentivize and encourage youth to get active and involved in nowadays changing public policies.

Art is integral in political platforms 

Firmly grounded in the challenge of our current moment and worded specially for the UNFINISHED18 community, poet and activist Aja Monet will perform some of her most moving poetry. Dancing between art, activism and culture ; her voice is that of a cross-border lyricist able to twist and shake the delicate balance between speech and song. Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: September, 2018 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8

Confronting Silence, Aja Monet at UNFINISHED18

For Tehching Hsieh, also called “the master in performance art”, time is a tool for making art. Time is universal and everyone has a specific amount of time, but what Tehching does with his time is remarkable.

The universal language of time

For an entire year, Tehching sits in a cage and he essentially did nothing for a year — no reading, no writing, no television. He simply focused on passing time.

One Year Performance 1978–1979

Tehching lived entirely outdoors in Lower Manhattan for a year, including through one of the most severe winters in recorded history.

One Year Performance 1981–1982

Living and breathing the freedom that illuminates those who manage to create their own systems despite the rigidity of our society, Tehching's work will remain timeless.

An artist for forever

Nicknamed the grandfather of performance art and internationally known for his seminal one-year-long performances, Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh presents a lifetime of high-stamina projects. Living and breathing the freedom that illuminates those who manage to create their own systems despite the rigidity of our society, his work will inspire anyone who seeks to breach the walls of their societal cages. Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: September, 2018 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8

Race against Time machine

The Universal Language of Time, Tehching Hsieh at UNFINISHED18

The more of your time I can take, the more money I can make of it. – this is how economy attention works.&nbsp;Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and the rest of the internet use this persuasive tool.

Social Media won us over economy attention

Imagine watching an episode of your favorite TV series on Netflix. You are already on your second one and you promised yourself that after you finish it, you’ll go to bed as tomorrow is a long day. Soon after finishing it, you are left wondering what will happen in the next episode. Then, the countdown begins 5, 4, 3 … and you are already on your third episode tonight.

Economy attention is based on already-made decisions for us

Not just an ideal goal of the day, but a movement.&nbsp;Back in 2013, people dedicated to radically reimagine our digital infrastructure started to create shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy, and shared information environment.

Time Well Spent

Max Stossel, Poet + Filmmaker + Advocate at Time Well Spent Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: May 27th, 2017 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: http://www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival/ Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival/ Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/EidosFoundation

Storytelling in the Attention Economy |  Max Stossel, at #UNFINISHED17

Even though we believe that the most strategic challenges and difficult tasks at work should be discussed for a long time, the MESA method asks us to move very fast into execution and then we’re going to solve it better.

MESA – a method to solve work complex problems quick

It's a leader at the head of the table, a team with all knowledge and skills needed, and one mission that makes the dream team.&nbsp;It is when you work with someone that you actually get to learn from them. Perfect teams at work should be based on the power of leadership so that others can follow and build together the final result.

The recipe for the perfect team at work

When we have a mission and we invest emotions in our work, we don’t feel the time passing by.&nbsp;When we connect with what we have to deliver, there does not exist too much work, as we strive to see our project coming to life.

A mission at work connects people with their job

A presentation about the MESA METHOD—a team-based work system designed to solve complex challenges by unleashing human potential to process more and execute faster. Going over the last 6 years during which 132 MESAS were led in more than 50 different organizations from all over the globe—including Google, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Auckland Council—with some of the most brilliant professionals of our generation—including Kobe Bryant, Perry Chen, Cindy Gallop and Neil Harbisson, we'll share learnings and examples of successful cases, as well as practical tools to allow people to work in a more efficient way. Recorded at UNFINISHED Festival: September, 2018 About UNFINISHED Festival: UNFINISHED is a four-day event, part festival, part conference and part exhibition, which brings together innovators, leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, artists, writers and change-makers across all disciplines to share work, research and ideas. Learn more about UNFINISHED at: www.unfinished.ro Like UNFINISHED on Facebook: www.facebook.com/unfinishedfestival Follow UNFINISHED on Instagram: www.instagram.com/unfinishedfestival Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/2L4ReN8

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