跟读练习: Cyborg Rights: The Next Human Rights Movement | Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow | TEDxSutherland - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Reviewer.pereen
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I'm at a train station.
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I tap my hand to the reader because my Opal card is inside my hand.
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I hear a sound familiar to Sydney commuters.
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a low beep, a red light, declined.
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I tap my hand again, same thing.
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Now let me explain.
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A few months earlier, I had the chip from an Opal card implanted under my skin.
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It's very small, about the size of my thumbnail, and I used it to ride the trains every day.
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Tapping on, tapping off, paying my fares just like everyone else.
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But Transport for New South Wales had found my chip in their system and switched it off remotely without telling me.
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They had, and I love this term, bricked my hand.
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$30 of credit trapped under my skin forever.
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All right, you might hear this story and say, well, that's what you'd get for putting a train ticket in your hand.
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Fair enough.
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But I couldn't stop thinking about how a government agency had reached inside my body and switched something off off without warning me, without telling me?
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And that's when a question landed that I haven't been able to shake since.
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When technology is a part of your body, who actually controls it?
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Before they bricked it, I'd been fined.
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I was riding a train, ticket inspectors doing their rounds.
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I tapped my hand to the device.
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It said, valid tap-on, credit on the card.
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The inspector looked at his scanner and looked at my hand and said, wow, that's crazy, and then proceeded to find me twice.
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One was for writing without a valid ticket.
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One was for failing to produce a ticket, something you can't do when your ticket's under your skin.
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The system confirmed I'd paid and punished me anyway.
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This should have been straightforward.
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You paid.
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The machine says you paid.
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End of story.
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But it wasn't, because the law had no framework for this.
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No one had ever been in the position I was in.
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So I took it to court.
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And I lost.
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Appealed and then won, sort of.
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The judge agreed I'd clearly paid my fare, but I still had to pay $1,000 in court costs.
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And my lawyer said something that I can't stop thinking about.
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If Australia had a Bill of Rights, you'd probably have had an instant win.
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We don't have one.
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And the Human Rights Commissioner said something really strange.
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He said that if I died with the chip in my body, transport for New South Wales could theoretically claim my body
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as their property.
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A government transport card could give a bureaucracy claim over my corpse.
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Don't worry, I'm in no hurry to test that one out.
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Now imagine a world where before any of this had happened someone had asked the question, what What rights do people have over the technology in their body?
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If that question had been asked in law, in policy, in the design of the system, none of this would have ever happened.
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The tap would have been valid, the fare would have been paid, and we could have all just gone on with our lives.
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But that question wasn't asked.
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Not for me, not for anyone.
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My lawyer called my case the thin end of the wedge.
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And he was right.
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Because while I was dealing with a $30 train ticket, a company called Second Sight was selling people bionic eyes, retinal implants.
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They gave sight to people that had none.
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And then the company went bankrupt.
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And 350 people were left with dead video cameras in their eyes.
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No support, no repairs, no one to call.
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The implants are still in their eyes.
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But the company is gone.
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Here's the thing.
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We have language for this.
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You've heard of the right to repair.
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The idea that if you buy a tractor or a phone, that you have the right to fix it without asking the manufacturer's permission.
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And this movement is winning.
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is passing around the world, and Australia is a part of that conversation.
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But no one is asking the next question, which is, do we have the right to repair when the thing we want to fix is under our skin?
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Right to repair doesn't stop at the skin.
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We need the right to control, maintain and understand the technology inside our body.
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Not just the technology we own, the technology we are.
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This isn't about me and my train ticket.
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It's about the person sitting in this room with a pacemaker.
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The kid that will get a cochlear implant next year.
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And eventually, the person with a neural interface.
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And it gets me thinking what thriving actually means, the theme of the day.
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Thriving means directed growth.
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It means flourishing.
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Flourishing doesn't happen when a company can switch off your hearing because you violated their terms of service.
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and it doesn't happen when bankruptcy can leave you in the dark, literally.
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Flourishing happens when your body belongs to you, when the technology inside you serves you, not a shareholder, not a terms of service agreement,
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and not a bureaucrat at a transport agency.
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Before you leave this room, decide something.
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Your body is not a product.
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It is not a subscription.
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It is not for sale or to be rented, tracked, or quietly taken away from you.
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It is yours.
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And that truth doesn't defend itself.
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So don't just agree with it.
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Act on it.
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Challenge what violates it.
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Refuse what diminishes it.
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Support those fighting for it.
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Build a world where this is non-negotiable.
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Because this only stays true if we make it true, together, for all of us.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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