The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling 

Yesterday Hans Rosling passed away, and I wanted to see this masterpiece of him again. It war a great joy. RIP

I shed a tear when he said this. "This is the magic. You load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books."

I am so grateful that I discovered this video while studying the UN e-waste course. I laughed and shed tears. His presentation was very touching and powerful!

"Thank you industrialization. Thank you power station". I will miss Hans Rosling.

This presentation impressed me much. It has combined popular knowledge and scientific knowledge. The structure of conveying the information has been very clear.

This man was an absolute genius.... Presenting data and making it beautiful and compelling.

I just watched this as part of my course and came to find it on youtube. So so sad to hear this wonderful man has passed.

How is this the first time I have heard this person???? I love him!

"Now we can go to library." Excellent!

RIP Hans Rosling. My fave presentation among so many great ones. Thank you for touching my life and mind, and making me a better educator and public health professional/researcher.

"Even the hardcore in the Green Movement use washing machine." LOL! And I just made that argument 2 days ago - I will live off the land, but I need electricity for a washing machine.

Damn I love Hans Rosling. His talks are so freaking awesome.

Oh man it made me cry

What an amazing lesson in economics. Labor saving devices free up labor for other ventures! :)

Hans Rosling is indeed a prophetic speaker ; one of very unmeasurable values but perfectionary vision

What Hans did, as always, is using great visual aid to explain a complicated topic.

i love presentations by Hans Rosling...he always comes prepared with real data and always is concerned about the future....plus he's pretty entertaining :D

As usual, Hans Rosling delivers awesomeness.

Prof. Rosling is on a roll. Always worth watching.

this was one of the best TED talks i have seen in recent time!

Rosling brings it on every single talk. The man is brilliant.

Just died today.. so sad. Rest in piece..

There are a lot of comments here but some seem to miss the point...the washing machine is not the point, it is just used as an example of the way using machines gives all of us and especially women in patriarchal societies more time to spend doing things they want.

He's got so much of this nordic vibe in him. :)

It reminds me of 'Song of the South' by the country band Alabama: "Daddy got a job with the TVA* He bought a washing machine and a Chevrolet" *Tennessee Valley Authority, which amongst other things generated hydro-electric power and electrified the South. A good example of the interaction between democracy ("Mr Roosevelt was gonna save us all"), industrial development, and the emergence of the affluent society.

Hans Rosling is the only person who's talks I really look forward to :)

Thank you. We miss you very much.

This guy knows how to captivate the audience. Delightful to watch.

I love seeing "Hans Rosling" in my subscription box.

Im an engineer, and Rosling might have been the finest presenter of tech innovation, as it impacts the world, I’ve ever heard. If I may: one more dimension needs a way into that excellent graphic on population, who uses energy energy, and std of living. As it stands, the graphic only shows what people *use*. Those airplanes, wash machines, power plants are *all* begin from the actions of the high energy consuming group on the right, including ie Rosling’s perceptive analysis, something to consider before chopping them down.

This is why I'm subscribed to TEDtalks. I could give less than a hoot about so many of the other speakers they seem to be presenting recently.

Great speech! What a man Hans Rosling

utterly touched and thanks for showing us the inequality for energy consumption, a big question we have to answer in the process of pursuing sustainability

This moved me to tiers! His speech convinced me of his point beyond any doubt!

When he talks about how even Grandmother came to watch the machine, I find it vaguely disturbing to hear the low laughter among the audience. Oh I understand it I guess... the source of humor they felt was because someone was so amazed by something the audience finds so ordinary. What bothers me is that they DO take such things for granted. Too many have no idea just how good they have it... and yet they think they gotta have the latest of every gadget, the newest iphone, etc that come along.

RIP mr Hans Rosberg you are a BIG inspiration for me. Tx for your positivity

I have great respect for Hans Rosling.

This is the best Ted talk I ever seen. 😍

Hans is a superb presenter! "Even the hardcore in the green movement is still using washing machine"

LOVED THIS!

I always know a Hans Rosling talk is gonna be good.

This is so refreshing and awesome that it almost made me shed a tear

This guy is so passionate...love it!

One point worth making that Hans didn't mention in this talk, is that what we above the "airline" should help facilitate for those below the "washline". Sure, 1 washing machine pr household is convenient for us, but the price of purchase takes them out of the range of those in the bracket with electricity but below the "washline", even though many of them can afford to run them. Large (20-50kg+? payload) communal washing machines for groups of households makes sense. It's the economics of scale.

Oh, I love Hans Rosling!

you just have to love Hans Rosling

we take so much for granted.

Hans Rosling returns! Yay !!

@Mrmoc7 rest assured... every talk by Hans Rosling is a Gem....!! enjoy.

excellent!!

that statistics are so fascinating...we shall be grateful for having the access to so many electronic devices...

From the first few second I can tell this guy is going to be awesome.

That was awesome!

Just awesome channel.

Hans has definitely become my favorite economist by far lol

This guy may just be my new hero.

Best TED talk ever.

Brilliant has allways!

Came to watch this again after the speech of Greta Thunberg in the UN. You see, it takes 50 years of experience not to make big claims and treat correct data wrongly. Thank you, Hans Rosling, for giving a more complete and elaborate perspective to World Change. RIP

I love this guy.

awesome stuff!

more Rosling!

I'm eating this up. It's such great information. I want this guy to be my professor. o.o

HANS FOR LIFE

I love Hans Rosling

Hans is the Best!!!

I love this guy!

my favourite TED speaker does it again

Nice man. Too bad he passed away. These kind of people should live forever, because they are the ones that make humanity progress...

Nice guy, awesome talk.

You gotta love ya' some Hans.

Just Brilliant

Amazing talk. You can feel his passion about this.

@Panpiper : Wow. An actual, intelligent, sane comment about climate change. I sincerely say, What a breath of fresh air! Thank you.

the best approach to use to their advantage the free time that technology offers

We need more of these reasonable people today !

RU-vid should really put a reasoning box for those who vote thumbs up or down for each video. I would really like to know why 42 people voted thumbs down for this video!

Refreshing.

Hans Rosling is tha man!

I've just finished his book Factfullness .. What a beautiful mind!

God I love this guys!

I can't agree more!

_so cool

very entertaining!

Hi, I'm from São Paulo! Muito bom mesmo! Yeah!

beautiful, I have this mindset when others try to dictate the lives of people outside the 1st world.

I'm watching this for contemporary world class and I must say it's surprisingly entertaining compared to what I was expecting!

All his talks are great. I like how he thinks.

I watched this video while living in Iceland, and I'm taking notes for a bit I am writing: "He talked about the poverty line, those who live on less then $2 a day, and opposite of the poverty line he coined the "airline" which is above $80 a day -- the airline is people who can afford to travel in the air machine, the travel machine at while whenever they want, to use all the different sorts of machines of luxury "toasters, tv's, etc, etc. He then designated the "Wash line" where they consume $40 dollars a day, and they have access to washing machines. He estimated around 2 billion humans live at or above this "Wash Line" -- these estimated are from the early 2010's, things change, but not often that quickly, so likely these numbers still add up. He question was then how do those 5 billion of us living below the wash line wash their clothes? By hand. Forget drying, how do they wash? "They want the Washing Machine" he stated. No doubt they do. He shows his grandmother 2 generations ago washing by hand as well, then she was freed from this by the washing machine. He went on to note how when he lectures to environmentally concerned students they lecture him back with why not everyone in the world can have cars and machining machines, to save the planet. "Even the hardcore in the Green movement use washing machine" he stated.

this dude is a really good speaker wow

This dude is so cool.

I knew this was gonna be good

Reading his book "Factfullness" was an eye-opener. A great, visionary man, who, unfortunately, the leaders of the world ignore.

excellent

@drorjs Both fusion and fission are possible energy sources for the future, not long ago the first fusion experiment that actually yielded more energy then was put in was done. There are lots of problems to overcome though, so i dont expect the first production plant to be built before atleast 20 years goes by. Improved fission can last far longer then that.

Someone actually made a foot pedal washing machine. Still takes human power but I'm sure it still saves time.

@goog2k I'm not sure you watched the same video that the rest of us did. This presentation was not about the wealthy billion who have all those things you mentioned, wanting still more. This was about the two billion who have virtually nothing, wanting "and deserving" at least a part of what we have taken for granted for the last 50 years.

I like the way he talk

watching this for my geography book! (hodder education, anyone?)

fantasitc, I believe we need washing machine, but I do not think we need the dryer as bad as wash machine.