Kelly Corrigan

Because we begin the interaction.

We say yes to something and it enters our home.

And I think it's already been clear that we were asleep when we let social media enter our lives.

And I think many people were asleep when they let something like

alexa into their lives like i think you have to know exactly what is in those terms and conditions that we're all clicking okay okay okay before you open the door to your most private spaces well i i think it is interesting i think that a lot of people aren't comfortable

That's Chloe Sasha Brooks, the TED curator who was my guiding light through this entire process during my first exploratory call with Allison.

And that's it for today.

Come back tomorrow for the legendary anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hurdy.

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Thanks for listening.

Hi, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and last year I gave a talk about the occasional need for extraordinary bravery in family life.

I had my mom in mind as I wrote it, she being the person who absorbed my most shocking news and most painful episodes over the course of my life.

The talk went well, and a few months after I gave it, Chris Anderson and Helen Walters asked me if I would guest curate a session at TED 2025, the theme of which was humanity reimagined, the underlying question of which was, in a modern world, what's a human for?

How did you land on this theme, Chris, for the whole conference?