Pope Francis gives TED talk: 'We build future
together'
Pope Francis speaks during the TED Conference during a video presentation at the annual scientific, cultural and academic event in Vancouver, Canada.- AFP |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has broken new ground in the
way he communicates his message when the first-ever papal TED Talk went on
line.
TED is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading
ideas in the form of short talks. What began in 1984 as a conference covering
Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED), today provides talks from a wide
range of different speakers – except popes. Until today.
Those of us following TED’s annual Conference in Vancouver
had been promised a surprise “world figure” who would deliver his 18-minute
message on the conference theme, “The Future You”, alongside tennis superstar,
Serena Williams, entrepreneur, Elon Musk, and chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
But no one expected to see the Pope’s face appear on the
screen.
“I very much like this title – ‘The Future You’”, began Pope
Francis, “because, while looking at tomorrow, it invites us to open a dialogue
today, to look at the future through a ‘you’…The future is made of
you’s…because life flows through our relations with others”.
Speaking in his typically personal and informal style, the
Pope reminded us of how “everything is connected” and of how “life is about
interactions”. “None of us is an autonomous and independent ‘I’”, he said. “We
can only build the future by standing together, including everyone”.
His second message regarded “educating people to a true
solidarity” in order to overcome the “culture of waste” that puts products at
the centre of techno-economic systems, instead of people. “The other has a
face”, he said. “The ‘you’ is…a person to take care of”.
The Pope illustrated his point by quoting Mother Teresa and
the parable of the Good Samaritan, before going on to talk about Hope – which
he described as “a humble, hidden seed of life that, with time, will develop
into a large tree”. “A single individual is enough for hope to exist”, he said.
“And that individual can be you”.
Pope Francis’ third and final message was dedicated to what
he called “the revolution of tenderness”. Tenderness means “being on the same
level as the other”, he said. It is not weakness, but strength: “the path of
solidarity…of humility”. And through humility, even power becomes a service and
a force for good.
The Pope concluded by affirming that the future of humankind
is not in the hands of politicians or big companies but, most of all, in the
hands of those people “who recognize the other as a ‘you’ and themselves as
part of an ‘us’”.
Because: “We all need each other”.
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