TED thread - Collection of TED lectures

[restin]

TED offers a lot of great lectures. So I thought about making a collection-thread where you could make some comments about lectures you liked, that are good.

The Real Crisis? We Stopped Being Wise

IMHO a really great lecture, for me an important part of what human coexistence means.

A surprising parable of foie gras

Indeed, very surprising and insightful.

I also liked "Do schools kill creativity" but there is a thread about it already.

 

[Space-is-the-Place]

And 6 Ways Mushrooms can Save the World

And My Stroke of Insight must be somewhere too....

 

[Mara]

I love TED.

I was amazed by this video: Underwater Astonishments
Nature can be pretty psychedelic as well :wink:

I also love the personality of this guy: Clifford Stoll

 

[Mr.Smith]

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[restin]

Thanks for the links.

How Creativity is Strangled by the Law

What we can learn from Spaghetti Sauce

Your genes are not your fate

Space, you probably meant this one:

My Stroke of Insight

 

[Space-is-the-Place]

Space, you probably meant this one:

My Stroke of Insight

Yes, but I meant the topic on the forum
Ohw well, good you posted that link, I think it's one of the best.
Very insightful

I also love the personality of this guy: Clifford Stoll

That guy is all over the place :mrgreen:

How Creativity is Strangled by the Law

I like his point of view, also in a drug-related kind of way
The age of prohibition has to go at some point

 

[restin]

Yes, but I meant the topic on the forum Wink
Ohw well, good you posted that link, I think it's one of the best.
Very insightful

I don't get it but I just watched it and it is indeed extremely good.

I am thinking of going to TEDGlobal...http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/207 Anyone wanna join? :lol:

 

[GOD]

I hope i`m alowed to say something without gettig slagged off again stiki ?

A little perspective .

If i had that much money it would about double my yearly income = 3600 euros . Looks like a few good talks though .

 

[restin]

Oh. I overlooked and didn't think they would be so elitist. Bad luck

 

[restin]

Next ones:
Sylvia Earle: Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!)

Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)

 

[Space-is-the-Place]

Woody Norris; Sound focussing technology
Amazing technology to transfer sound to the ear without disturbing others.

 

[Forkbender]

Seth Godin - Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

 

[Forkbender]

William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle

Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

 

[restin]

Seth Godin - Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

Good video. I somehow imagined it a bit different...but good idea, it is a bit similar of what we talked about recently in some politics topic.

Woody Norris; Sound focussing technology
Amazing technology to transfer sound to the ear without disturbing others.

Amazing indeed...I somehow always get some 1984-ish visions when I see such new technologies popping out...but that's just me

 

[Forkbender]

Seth Godin - Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

Good video. I somehow imagined it a bit different...but good idea, it is a bit similar of what we talked about recently in some politics topic.

I had the exact same click. I think I'm gonna borrow his book and read a little...

 

[Getafix]

How Creativity is Strangled by the Law

Thanks, very interesting.

"We live in this weird time, this kind of Age of Prohibitions, in many areas of our life we live our life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law. And that's what we're doing to our kids. They live life knowing they live it against the law. That realization is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corrupting."

 

[????????]

ok, i watched them all.

gimme more!!!

 

[LsDxMdma]

you'z guyz' just introduced me to my next few days of entertainment

*humbly bows*

 

[Forkbender]

Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

About this talk

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

About Clay Shirky

Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works.

 

[Forkbender]

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

About this talk

At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

About Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and "cool tools." He's admired for his new perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology and religion.