TEDxHultsfred - Bodil Jönsson - On Prenaissance

Bodil Jönsson: One of Sweden's most popular and acknowledged professors who in a philosophical but down-to-earth way helps us catch not only the spirit of the times, i.e. the cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual and poitical climate, but also the own situatedness here and now as well as the anticipations for the future. Originally an experimental physicist, she is now professor emerita (area: rehabilitation engineering and design) at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. She is well known by a wide audience through television and radio programs and through her books, among them "Ten thoughts about time"/ "Unwinding the clock" (English and American versions, respectively), 1999. Her follow-up books "We learn the way we live" (2008) and "Ten years later" (2009) (these are so far only in Swedish) reveal the tensions between a 24 hours' on-line accessibility to everybody and everything on the one hand side and a strive for concentration, depth and meaning on the other. To gain life experiences through bits and pieces has other long term consequences than those through wholes and contexts. Read more: http://www.english.certec.lth.se/bodil/ .