Some of my favorite moments from the TED conference.
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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons
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TED Talks Rives -- star of the Bravo special "Ironic Iconic America" -- tells a typographical fairy tale that's short and bittersweet.
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Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long T…
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TED Talks <a href="/index.php/speakers/view/id/72" target="_blank">Chris Anderson</a>, the editor of <em>WIRED </em>(not to be confused with the curator of TED, who has the same name), explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous. To demonstrate this trajectory, Anderson explores the evolution of the DVD player as it passes through each of these four tipping points, the
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Alisa Miller shares the news about the n…
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TED Talks Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- in an era when we want to know more about the world -- the US news media actually shows us less. Using eye-opening stats and graphs, she shows us that it's a simple economic problem: It's cheaper to cover Lindsey Lohan than the war in Afghanistan. <br />
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Brewster Kahle builds a free digital lib…
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TED Talks Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library: every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.
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Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of th…
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TED Talks 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?
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J.J. Abrams: The mystery box (video)
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J.J. Abrams traces his love of the unseen mystery -- the heart of Alias, Lost, and the upcoming Cloverfield -- back to its own magical beginnings, which may or may not include an early obsession with magic, the love of a supportive grandfather, or his own unopened Mystery Box.
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TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativi…
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arry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remi
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TED | Talks | Thomas Barnett: The Pentag…
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In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US military: Break it in two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fierce soldiers capable of swift and immediate victories; and an internationally supported network of System Administrators, an older, wiser, more diverse organization that actually has the diplomacy and power it takes to buil
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TED | Talks | Rives: "If I controlled th…
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How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? "If I were in charge of the Internet," Rives says, "You could Mapquest your lover's mood swings / Hang left at cranky / Right at preoccupied / U-turn at silent treatment ..." Enjoy a unique talent.
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TED | Talks | Howard Rheingold: Way-new …
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Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.
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