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Institutions vs. collaboration Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 10, 2008 In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big ...

BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation ...

John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 "I don’t think we're going to make it," John Doerr says in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. To create a world fit fo...

10 ways the world could end Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an ...

The power to connect the world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 01, 2008 Hector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and descr...

One Laptop per Child, two years on Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 26, 2008 Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off...

Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller ...

A powerful idea about teaching ideas Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustra...

Our cell phones, ourselves Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of ...

Why a free press is the best investment Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 A free press — papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vuc...

How creativity is being strangled by the law Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Larry Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving ...

After the gold rush, there’s innovation ahead Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it’s more like the early days of the electric ...

Hardware solutions to everyday problems Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from "smart rope" to a hous...

Hardware solutions to everyday problems Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from "smart rope" to a house-sized kite for towin...

Inside the Google machine Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the phi...

Why can’t we grow new energy? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on pla...

Sing a song of sustainable cities Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible ...

The tragedy of suburbia Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead...

Stories from the birth of the computer Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of ...

On the verge of creating synthetic life Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 "Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" — an...

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