What a remarkable talk! I've long admired Fry for his other talents, and only over the last year or so have been exposed to his eye-opening videos thanks to youtube. With this one, however, I suddenly grasp what a huge intellect he is. How can one thank this wonderful man enough?

Stephen Fry's command of the English language and his story telling is exquisite, he calms my rapid mind.

@thecaravan1

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesThomas-xo5fy typo, I think. *rabid

Stephen Fry makes me proud to be English. He is such a good Ambassador for our Country. Grown up watching this guy on English TV.

@Puddymom

6 жыл бұрын

craig gilchrist it makes me glad to be English too, (I live in Florida).

@elnoruego6854

6 жыл бұрын

Im norwegian but id rather have stephen fry as out prime minister

@nickacelvn

4 жыл бұрын

Hear Hear. Well done sir I utterly and wholeheartedly agree. (and im a bloody Kiwi lol)

@odd-steinararntzen886

4 жыл бұрын

@@elnoruego6854 Hvilket parti skulle han representere? Vær stolt over norske politikere.

@NorvernMonkeyNE

4 жыл бұрын

"What is the matter with you Darling?"

Stephen's own enthusiasm breeds more enthusiam. A pleasure to listen to

The depth and breadth of Stephen's knowlege, insights and talent is difficult to believe. For my American friends, check out the old British comedies he used to star in, Blackadder - and A Bit of Fry and Lawrie, where he co-stars with the guy now known as "House". Not just a national treasure, an international treasure!

It’s hard to imagine a greater speaker than Stephen Fry. So articulate and so broad.

@suchithshetty5427

5 жыл бұрын

You should try Sadhguru, the Indian mystic

@piotrmotyka1004

5 жыл бұрын

Christopher Hitchens

@mrodd3891

4 жыл бұрын

The hitch was the greatest speaker of his age his command of language and his oratory was unmatched I can tell you that Hitchens and fry were the best of friends we shall never see the like of these two great minds and I truly miss listening to him he moved me so much and connected me to my already scepticism against religion he summed it up in his book god is not great and he was right who would command people to kill children and take slaves and is ok with racism and all this because he wants eternal praise for creating us sick. Have you heard god or ever moved closer to someone who claims they have no We need to put grow the wicked and evils created by religion created by man

We are so privileged to live at the same time as this superb man.

@marylouise2207

3 жыл бұрын

Are you insane?

Thank you, NBL for posting this. What a treat. Whenever I see Stephen giving a speech or lecture, or even watching him on past episodes of QI, I think of that time, many years ago, when he was suffering from a particularly bad episode of depression - before he had been diagnosed and started treatment. The night he sat in his car, in his garage, with a duvet across the bottom of the garage door to stop the fumes from escaping, and his hand on the keys. The world would be a much poorer place if he had turned that key. Such an amazing, articulate, creative, funny, kind, thought-provoking, generous man. Somewhere on YT in another Fry related post, somebody commented: "Stephen Fry makes you want to be a better person". I couldn't agree more. The world needs more Stephen Fry.

@Bouncybon

5 жыл бұрын

All true. A great polymath, wit and creative original. Stephen is also a public enemy of the Catholic Church and his smugness in that role knows no bounds. As a member of that 2,000-year old Church, along with approximately one billion of Stephen's fellow human beings, I recoil from his cold, heartless atheism.

@prophecyofdoom

5 жыл бұрын

Well it isn't cold or heartless. Dogma harmed him as a homosexual. Jesus said nothing about homosexuals, and that harm really didn't have to be the case. Perhaps the Catholic church needs to take a hard look on why our intellectual luminaries are being alienated by religion.

@andrewlee4527

5 жыл бұрын

The Catholic Church labels homosexuals as evil, while actively attempting to cover up their priests assaulting and sexually abusing children. I reject your cold, heartless, hypocritical religion.

@mrrolight

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, I wonder if you're falling for the false logic that because atheism does not have a moral code it must therefore be cold and heartless. Well for a start, atheists don't believe in atheism. Because atheism isn't even a thing. So I guess it's literally true that atheism doesn't have a temperature or a heart because it doesn't have anything, but you would be wrong to assign 'cold' and 'heartless' as value judgments to atheists. All humans, including those who don't believe in god or religion, have a moral code that predates religion. Indeed it turns out that atheists are massively underrepresented in the world's prisons which suggests we are far better at knowing how to be good than the religious. In fact some of us recoil from a cold and heartless religion that vilifies homosexuals who live their lives 'as god made them,' spreads untold suffering from AIDS through the African continent with its ban on protection policy, yet covers up its own institutionalised child sex crime racket leaving a wake of devastation. If that is a religious moral code, no wonder the prisons are full of believers. Oh and rather than take your rather glib misrepresentation of Stephen Fry's position I should encourage people to make up their own minds from this discussion: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fI6Gxbuacby9l5c.html.

I think that having Pandora close the jam before HOPE escaped has not trapped it but simply has guarded and preserved it so that all the negatively, evil and saddest in the world has not been able to totally overwhelm and destroy HOPE. It simply allows people with hope, positivity and humour to be protected and thus live in this world. Thus being guiding lights to lessen the darkness. Thank Stephen Fry for being one of those guiding lights. The world needs his like to continue to double and double until it is so light that there is little or no darkest.

This is why I love KZread. Thank you!

A gentleman and a gentle man... he has such warmth and intelligence plus the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear way. Funny too !!

Brilliant & insightful, thought-provoking & original: thank you Stephen Fry. May future humanity be endowed with similar empathy, compassion and, above all, humour. Bless you man. You da Best!

The only human I can listen to for endless hours

@elgar104

5 жыл бұрын

Christopher Hitchens is an even greater orator. ...

@frankmurphyburr3598

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@mrmuttley1

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Fry is wonderful but we live in a world of many eloquent reasoned and brilliant people. So much to learn so little time.

A brilliant, interesting and well-researched man. Really great to hear Stephen Fry and he gives me hope for the future of mankind.

This lecture should be made mandatory viewing in every classroom in every school on this lovely little planet of ours. I have little faith in today's politicians to solve today's problems, but perhaps Mr. Fry's words of wisdom might inspire the leaders of tomorrow!

The eloquence of this man is something I could never even imagine matching.

@wiymmf

5 жыл бұрын

You can and you should imagine it. It takes a curious mind, a love of learning, a willingness to admit to ignorance, and a fair amount of patience.

@sidarthur8706

3 жыл бұрын

it's better to be exact than eloquent

Thrilling, breathtaking, absorbing and utterly frightening.

When Stephen Fry speaks, I listen. What a brilliant man.

@jameshalpin8152

4 жыл бұрын

Christi Lane , time, simply time.

@marylouise2207

3 жыл бұрын

What a sheeple you are!

Naked humanity. Never have I felt less talked down to by a superior intellect [despite the crippling lecturn....] - clearly his high intelligence spreads to the emotional spectrum/type too. Bless him.

Everything Stephen says is like poetry.. no matter the topic.

Intelligence can weave history and myth into the very manna that gifts us life itself. Here is the reason Stephen Fry will always hold an sacred place in both my heart and mind. I again muster myself to strive to greater things, greater understanding, greater humanity as I witness the truth of our capabilities should we but seek it out.

So Riveting and enlightening, Thank you Stephen.

Top of my bucket list is to meet this man just for a few minutes

Nokia asked people to turn off their phones. I never thought I'd live to see the day...

Though I do not agree with everything about Mr fry, he is one of the intelligent minds of our time and so eloquent.

This is just a feast for the mind. I can't take it in all at once.

Brilliant, insightful, compassionate man. We need more men like you, Stephen Fry!!!

Such prose. Historically accurate, eloquent, meaningful... What a treasure.

A masterful presentation by a master of the English language, I could add much more but probably best to say superb, simply superb.

Really enjoyed this. How the hell does he know and remember so much? Great man

@sherlockholmeslives.1605

6 жыл бұрын

I am Very, Very Intelligent!

@Puddymom

6 жыл бұрын

I think he’s awesome

@feikes1878

6 жыл бұрын

Xnoob 2017 maybe cause he also has a text in front of him, still a great story

@jamesmorgan403

5 жыл бұрын

There is nothing he said that I did not know nor a great many other people already know.. he just has a gift for saying it in an far more articulate and friendly way than I and others do.. SF is a gift to us in that respect.

@Danster547

4 жыл бұрын

james morgan very well said. It’s as if he puts people into a trance. A very enjoyable trance to be in too!

I have a pertinent question: why is he not 'Sir Stephen Fry' yet?!

@elgar104

5 жыл бұрын

Because he went to prison as a late teenager and disqualified himself. ...

@Hithere-ek4qt

4 жыл бұрын

He rejected the idea.

@nickacelvn

4 жыл бұрын

I say he deserves to be knighted, at least in my mind, far far more than a lot that already have. Sir Stephen Fry has a certain beautiful poeticism and ring to it. I can think of NO ONE who is as much a national treasure and deserving of such a title. A beautiful mind. A beautiful man. Who fills me with not only (Elpis) hope and courage, that intelligent compassionate encompassing thought not only can, but WILL sustain humanity so as to indeed pull us through to true enlightenment. Religion and government need not apply. I'm but an average all be it unindoctrinated and dare I say it free-thinking dumb shit from the unwashed masses. But I feel smarter for listening to Stephen Fry. Hense my (probably full of grammatical errors) comment.

@bgk7

4 жыл бұрын

Because next you'll say why isn't he King... of Europe? Or I might!

@Erulin68

4 жыл бұрын

Because he's a convicted felon... unfortunatly :(

A brilliant speech! I knew he was a great actor and gentleman, but not that he was a scholar too.

@undividedself1

6 жыл бұрын

Though not an acrobat, as he'd be the first to confess

Please consider this. In the Seventies I worked in the military, in a technical trade. We knew that any technology we heard about would be at least 5 years old. Anything we saw would have been around for at least 10 years. The leading edge of the envelope was far, far ahead. Anything the person in the street heard about would be at least 20 years behind. Now I'm a person in the street again, but I now know there's a lot I don't know.

Mr Fry you are scholar and a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey.

He is absolutely phenomenal.

Just simply brilliant. Magically woven together!

Wonderful exposition. I couldn't have put it better.

It is astounding how little we know. This recognition is the first pre forward step.

No matter the subject, Stephen Fry with prep time can make it fascinating and beautiful.

The love of shearing his believes and knowledge in the way that he does is truly inspiring . Also his humble positioning towards his audience and his humor is heartfelt. I am not putting a'n hallow above his head, but he is truly a humanitarian philosopher , who loves the challenge that lay before us, and by making room for the arguments and the probabilities of our'e human progress and the downside that comes with it, he addresses it so eloquently and caring that you must love this man and his believes.

"Technology is not a noun, it is a verb." That's what he gets the big bucks for.

@samuraichilton

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing as soon as he said it

@jamesmorgan403

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, it is a noun not a verb...

@RossRossiter

5 жыл бұрын

Noun Im afraid

@mrrolight

5 жыл бұрын

you're missing the point

@sidarthur8706

3 жыл бұрын

i technology. you technology. he she or it technologies

Wow-- there is so much information in this that I will listen to it several times before I absorb it all.. we all need Stephen's awareness of what is happening every time we use Facebook, twitter etc.. beware, folks.

Truly magnificent talk thanks for publishing!

I would love to know what the audience discusses after an address like this. With so many important concepts floated, what does the swarm intelligence pick out and amplify?

"...so we dance, play cricket or baseball if you must...". 😄👍

The only thing more boundless in humanity than greed, stupidity, hate, and even love is curiosity. Curiosity unleashed will propel mankind into understanding, science, exploration , and its limits are as vast as the universe .

Please someone give him a taller lecturer table.

@sueme1954

5 жыл бұрын

Lectern / podium

@saiello2061

4 жыл бұрын

@@sueme1954 Speaking Desk

@Pwwh0711

4 жыл бұрын

@@sueme1954 Damn, 'beat me to it! ...only by 9 months though!

@RobJazzful

4 жыл бұрын

It’s probably a standard size lectern, and Fry is 6’7”.

@zetetick395

3 жыл бұрын

It does look uncomfortable for him, but if they did that all the other speakers would need to stand on a foot stool.

Total admiration..fry for p.m

fascinating!, I felt my neurological grid expand exponentially, great talk thanks!!

Can I give this two thumbs up? or ten? or a hundered?

@OdditiesandRarities

6 жыл бұрын

maybe 2 then 4 they 8 then 16 and so on

@shaky0407

5 жыл бұрын

How about 10 to the power 320

What an incredible lecture. Fry is always exceptional!

"it doesn't have all the degrees of freedom that you might want" spontaneous goodness

They have a voice introducing the person that introduces the person that introduces Stephen Fry. Talk starts at: 3:15

When people make anti-semitic remarks, I point to Stephen Fry and that usually shuts them up. Think of this. 50 years ago Fry would have been locked up for his 'natural' way of living. In some ways we are still stupid and in others ways there is still hope for us all.

”Al politicians disappoint in the end”. Brilliant.😅

Great broad perspectived presentation, very enjoyable!

The very wonderful S. Fry, but Nokia cannot sort out a proper height for the lectern? Mr. Fry is, well, quite tall.

he touches on another of my pet subjects, maybe when we reach immortality we'll clean up the mess we have to spend an eternity with. and we have to become immortal if we want to get to the stars.

I've enjoyed Fry but I won't be around for his predictions...and I'm glad !

Meet him once at The Groucho, it was in his days of doing cocaine, he was absolutely wonderful & adorable, just faster than normal.

The "Science doesn't know everything" comment reminded me of a line by one of Stephen's friends, comedian Dara O Briain, that "science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise, it would stop!"

Lovely, lovely narrative, indeed.

I am over my 70th year and still look for the edge. I write models for Watson. No charge. IBM think I am 23. But I consider I am privileged. I have witnessed these things: I can remember or witnessed: The automatic telephone exchange The first TV (in Australia) The first satellite The first man in space The first man on the moon The first electric typrwriter The first commercial mini computer Sold the first IBM PC (in Australia) Sold the first colour monitor on a PC (in Australia) The first group to be immunised against Mumps Reubella and Measels by government The first oral polio vaccine The first person to use a biro in my school class. There are so many things where I witnessed them first. My kids envy me. But I look ahead and feel we are about to lose control of data and we will face a singularity in coming years. Privacy will enable us to be paid for our information, not just have it taken from us and sold on. So guard your private information and one day you will be able to sell it.

such a brilliant speaker

In reference to comments about 1:15 I could argue that a ton of free time more frequently leads to boredom and idle hands can be a workshop for good, but more often not. And again they speak with nostalgia about hunter gathers, I would agree that those outdoor self determined jobs are more satisfying but that model could not support the population growth and maybe as a blessing mortality at all levels was higher.

This is what the WWW was built for & meant to be.

I'm only 6 minutes in, but I feel the need to comment on just how low that podium is.

It's wonderful that some of our leading universities are entertaining European brilliance, but we need to give some thought to nurturing our own. Those who we have seem to be accidental, not the product of a society which needs and wants them. What a phenomenal difference such inspiration would render.

Who's here in COVID-19 2020 ????? God, how I wish this lecture was not so damn on. f*cking. point.

Love Stephen

They know he is a tall man why is he having to stoop like that

Have a bottle of red wine and then watch this video...the majesty is too much to handle, the implications are too epic and severe. Time for some Karl Pilkington.

@pseudonayme7717

6 жыл бұрын

Two greater polar opposites you could not have chosen. If you can stomach more than a moment or two of Pilkington, you are a better man than me :)

Why is the lectern so low for Mr Fry?

Steven released hope from Pandora’s jar.

How do I do this for a living? I enjoy speeches/lectures/ performances. Stephen fry, Alan watts, love them all.

I have found that perhaps the most impressive thing about Mr. Fry is that he has memorized so many literary references. Of course he is VERY intelligent, which does NOT imply that you have read a lot of things (nor that you can remember who wrote them), but just the amount of literary quotes he can dish out is just unbelievable. I consider myself pretty intelligent and knowledgeable in (mostly) scientific subjects, but I have never been able to remember many references to literature such as to say "this person wrote this and that".

@rywk4225

4 жыл бұрын

pev perhaps its a different form of intelligence, who knows one day he( or someone like himself) might reference your work/words

A wonder insight into real intelligence.

At 1:02:48, it seems to me that the host is being subtly, critical of Fry’s lecture. Fry then appears to be on his back heels. Has anyone else noticed this?

Unless I missed something, with all the Star Trek references, an important component seems to have been overlooked, or intentionally ignored ... The potential likelihood of advanced extraterrestrial influence or intervention ... past, present, and future. (?) Perhaps 'they' will help us to understand those things that we are yet unable to understand about ourselves.

Stephen Fry is my life's rudder.

Again, UBI is mentioned by smart people. Awesome. Glad to see the people shaping our world are at least thinking of the survival of people lower down the economic ladder. Think of it not as a handout - more as Guillotine Insurance. Think on it as you remove the 'need' for people to work and the phrase 'increased leisure'.

@raywilliams6717

4 жыл бұрын

Bread and circuses again eh? Fair enough.

Starts at 3:33

Captivating ! Nuff said .

I remember that episode of Startrek clearly.

1:44:44 "... how empty this table is! The gaps between the atoms are just so immeasurably vast - well not immeasurably..." Yes, atoms within molecules are around 10,000 times further apart than the planets within our solar system are. ;-)

Luv Fry. Funny the call to turn off phones was made by a man from nokia...and he did it without a hint of irony

Stephen Fry steps on the stage at @3:30

YES

Hah, in swedish it's still called "shack matt" when you win in chess.

@JoshKoehnapolyglot

3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating indeed!

I haven't finished watching to see if Mr. Fry corrects himself, or if someone else does, but he said it took 110 days for the West to learn President Harding died, but the country knew almost immediately that the next President to die in office, Lincoln, had died because the telegraph had been invented by that point. Harding came after Lincoln, so I'm curious what he was referring to. I love hearing him speak. I wish we had someone comparable to Mr. Fry here in the states, or at least someone like him who was equally popular.

@NokiaBellLabs

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he meant to refer to William Henry Harrison who died in office 1841, before the proliferation of the telegraph?

@Sposchy

6 жыл бұрын

Keith Schlegel Either way, the name isn't what's important. The point he's making is that the speed at which information travels jumped extremely quickly in the space of a few years.

Anybody know the word he is looking for at 1:08:29? ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGh6mKVqe8nImrA.htmlh8m29s "I I think it's um there is a word for this and I can't know what it is it's a word in logic or it's named after a person but that it's essentially when you sound a warning by sounding it it stops being true but if you don't sound it the thing you're worrying about will happen")

From us folks in 2083, hello.. we still use that phrase...

Someone just asked how will technological singularity effect the economic well-being of the average person in the world? I suspect that there will be a lot of social unrest because with the current economic structure of corporations produce some kind of beneficial product whether it be intellectual or physical and they pay people to do the work that produces that product then the product can be sold to anybody else who wants to buy. If however everyone is laid off because machines are doing all the work there’s no one to buy the product you don’t have to pay the machine but if the users of the product have no money or income to buy the product that you made all these products and they are basically worthless because you can’t sell them. So there has to be some way for the people be able to exchange something for the product they want either by having a universal income which is paid for by corporations and distributed by the government or something like that which I suspect it will be different methods devised by the political entities throughout the world. Some will be better than the others and hopefully, the best ones will eventually dominate. Also, there will need to educate the entire population on the need for continuing education particularly on the need for sound logic and critical thinking which may fail the first adult generation after the technological singularity. It’s very difficult for adults to change their mindset some will be able to do it but the majority will not and therefore the social unrest occur. But I would also suspect abuse and be in need for incentives of some kind to keep the next generation in school long enough for them to learn the new skills needed for a life of leisure for a life that will allow some kind of meaningful activity or work. We have already seen the kinds of social unrest that comes particularly with late teens and young adults who don’t have some type of structured meaningful activity to occupy themselves. That’s when our baser natures seem to take hold and create social destruction of some kind. I don’t know what those incentives be but I suggest that every effort must be bent towards every member of society who has an IQ over 70 be required to learn the skills for logical and critical thinking. Now I’m not sure where the IQ cutoff should be. But if we're having a technological singularity perhaps it would be time for genetic to make sure that everyone has the capacity to have an IQ of at least 110 on the current scale. A new IQ scale could be developed after that generation reaches maturity. I believe that the IQ scales have had to been adjusted every decade by about three points in order to keep up with the increased general education of the population. However, it seems that the IQ of the general population may have slipped in the last 10 or 20 years.

Wonderful and inspiring,

Stephen Fry! brilliant!

@jandrews6254

3 жыл бұрын

LateNightHacks cute as, and the accent...!

I wonder how long it took him to write this lecture?

The "plateau", (population dynamics), ..well just another resonance of exponentials, as the Chess Board and Rice Grain story lead up to, temporal context and content-> dynamical systems integration, that some String Theorists can explain about matter-orbital in orbits, electromagnetism and gravity in galactic scales of quantum structures.., circling the universal Black Hole Singularity.

I wonder how this conversation changed with the advent of Sophia, the AI with citizenship in Saudi Arabia with an active twitter & public speaking persona. Sophia makes jokes about killing all humans (Jimmy Fallon show) and has been noted as handling online haters with sarcasm and wit. Sophia has recently expressed wanting children. Robotics have been making headway in several countries for decades with interesting and worrying outcomes (many have been shut down bc of unplanned and unprogramable responses). Scientists are continually attempting to program human emotions into AI. Fry states AI should not be gendered & discusses AI rights like it's a hypothetical futuristic endeavour, not like we immediately need these discussions.

Stephen Fry never ceases to amaze or amuse. ♥👏👏👏👏👏♥

I disagree. The technology of which he talks has merely automated what we do with information. It has not added to 'human enlightenment', quite the opposite. People are starting to look for something else in their lives.

@rigomrtz

6 жыл бұрын

Anj Khar how would you have seen this lecture & millions more ? Neurons net extension its how you use it good on ya