Скачать или смотреть An economy that grows a happy planet instead of happy money | Thomas Schindler | TEDxFrankfurt

For more information on Thomas Schindler, visit our website: www.tedxfrankfurt.de Thomas was born in the US and grew up in Europe in an environment dominated by natural sciences which heavily influences his thinking to this day, but instead of pursuing a scientific career - which would have been the obvious choice, or becoming a rockstar - which was his childhood dream, he instead discovered the internet at around 1996 and started building digital platforms almost immediately which led to a series of successful and unsuccessful initiatives, projects and ventures ranging from collaboration platforms to mobile couponing systems, least cost routing services, service providers and ecommerce platforms.

His driving force since childhood is to contribute towards making the planet a good place for everyone. This is not only lead by his strong belief that if we all contribute towards this goal, we can make the planet a happy place for everyone, but also for his son Noah, whom he feels accountable to. For a long time he believed that we could make this happen with technology but in the past years he has learned that while we technically can solve the planetary problems with technology, we cannot use these solutions until we have changed our minds about how we want to live. In order to contribute towards a guiding narrative for the future we want to build, he is describing a good future in his upcoming book "mother". This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx