Favorite Themes:

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What's Next in Tech
- Featuring 167 talks.
- The contemplation and, often, introduction of new techno ...

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Not Business as Usual
- Featuring 156 talks.
- The digital revolution has changed much more than techno ...

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Technology, History and Destiny
- Featuring 91 talks.
- Kevin Kelly sa ...

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Africa: The Next Chapter
- Featuring 50 talks.
- In June 2007, TED held its first conference in Africa, t ...

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How We Learn
- Featuring 76 talks.
- Teachers of all kinds can find fresh resources -- and in ...
Favorite Talks:
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- Al Gore on averting climate crisis
- 16:17 Posted: Jun 2006
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- David Pogue says "Simplicity sells"
- 21:26 Posted: Jun 2006
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- Golan Levin on software (as) art
- 14:53 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat
- 23:27 Posted: Sep 2006
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- Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves
- 20:00 Posted: Nov 2006
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- Michael Shermer on strange beliefs
- 13:25 Posted: Nov 2006
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- Peter Gabriel fights injustice with video
- 14:08 Posted: Dec 2006
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- Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
- 18:34 Posted: Aug 2006
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- Seth Godin on standing out
- 17:01 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
- 14:03 Posted: Jan 2007
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- Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia
- 20:01 Posted: Aug 2006
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- Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
- 22:56 Posted: Nov 2006
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- Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging
- 22:45 Posted: Oct 2006
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- Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
- 17:37 Posted: Aug 2006
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- Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century?
- 17:26 Posted: Jan 2007
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- Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems
- 16:52 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame
- 19:44 Posted: Dec 2007
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- Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto
- 18:36 Posted: Jun 2006
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- Larry Brilliant wants to stop pandemics
- 25:50 Posted: Jul 2006
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- Bono's call to action for Africa
- 27:52 Posted: Oct 2006
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- Charles Leadbeater on innovation
- 19:01 Posted: Jan 2007
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- Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen
- 08:47 Posted: Aug 2006
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- Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
- 19:24 Posted: Jun 2006
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- Peter Donnelly shows how stats fool juries
- 21:20 Posted: Nov 2006
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- Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail
- 14:18 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Alex Steffen sees a sustainable future
- 17:34 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
- 14:33 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda
- 24:07 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
- 17:18 Posted: Feb 2007
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- Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
- 19:50 Posted: Jun 2006
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- Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do
- 21:45 Posted: Jun 2006
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- Dan Dennett on our consciousness
- 21:48 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation
- 17:11 Posted: Apr 2007
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- Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google
- 20:33 Posted: May 2007
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- Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
- 20:11 Posted: May 2007
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- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here
- 20:13 Posted: May 2007
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- John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech
- 17:52 Posted: May 2007
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- Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
- 07:30 Posted: May 2007
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- Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop
- 04:39 Posted: Jun 2007
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- Stephen Lawler tours Microsoft Virtual Earth
- 06:10 Posted: Jun 2007
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- Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty
- 18:57 Posted: Jun 2007
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- Alan Russell on regenerating our bodies
- 19:25 Posted: Jul 2007
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- Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories
- 17:10 Posted: Jul 2007
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- George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos
- 17:50 Posted: Jul 2007
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- William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
- 04:12 Posted: Jul 2007
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- Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa
- 19:01 Posted: Jul 2007
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- Patrick Awuah on educating leaders
- 17:31 Posted: Aug 2007
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- Andrew Mwenda takes a new look at Africa
- 17:07 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
- 15:50 Posted: Aug 2007
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- Steven Pinker on language and thought
- 17:27 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Hod Lipson builds "self-aware" robots
- 06:18 Posted: Oct 2007
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- Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon
- 29:42 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Zeresenay Alemseged looks for humanity's roots
- 15:51 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Deborah Scranton on her "War Tapes"
- 17:36 Posted: Sep 2007
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- John Maeda on the simple life
- 15:59 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
- 20:59 Posted: Aug 2008
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- Paul MacCready flies on solar wings
- 21:20 Posted: Sep 2007
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- Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet
- 29:51 Posted: Oct 2007
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- Eleni Gabre-Madhin on Ethiopian economics
- 20:34 Posted: Oct 2007
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- Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
- 18:56 Posted: Nov 2007
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- David Keith's unusual climate change idea
- 15:58 Posted: Nov 2007
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- Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy
- 18:10 Posted: Nov 2007
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- Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"
- 15:14 Posted: Dec 2007
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- Daniel Goleman on compassion
- 13:13 Posted: Dec 2007
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- Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show
- 35:28 Posted: Jan 2008
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- Jaime Lerner sings of the city
- 15:43 Posted: Feb 2008
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- Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
- 19:31 Posted: Feb 2008
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- Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life
- 15:54 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas
- 20:37 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
- 18:44 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions
- 25:23 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish
- 24:50 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School
- 25:35 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain
- 04:02 Posted: Mar 2008
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- Al Gore's new thinking on the climate crisis
- 27:54 Posted: Apr 2008
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- Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks
- 05:40 Posted: Apr 2008
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- Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics
- 17:52 Posted: Apr 2008
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- Amy Tan on creativity
- 22:52 Posted: Apr 2008
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- Hector Ruiz on connecting the world
- 19:57 Posted: May 2008
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- Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows
- 10:06 Posted: May 2008
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- George Dyson at the birth of the computer
- 17:18 Posted: Jun 2008
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- A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically
- 17:40 Posted: Jul 2008
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- Billy Graham on technology and faith
- 26:20 Posted: Jul 2008
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- Jonathan Harris collects stories
- 20:29 Posted: Jul 2008
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- Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
- 19:34 Posted: Jul 2008
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- Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain
- 16:22 Posted: Jul 2008
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- Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
- 12:28 Posted: Sep 2008
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- Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web
- 31:39 Posted: Sep 2008
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- Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library
- 20:06 Posted: Sep 2008
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- Marvin Minsky on health and the human mind
- 13:33 Posted: Sep 2008
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- David S. Rose on pitching to VCs
- 14:39 Posted: Sep 2008
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- Noah Feldman says politics and religion are technologies
- 15:07 Posted: Oct 2008
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- David Perry: Are games better than life?
- 21:06 Posted: Oct 2008
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- Steven Johnson on the Web as a city
- 16:30 Posted: Oct 2008
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- Tim Brown on creativity and play
- 27:58 Posted: Nov 2008
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- Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about
- 19:02 Posted: Nov 2008
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- Philip Rosedale on Second Life
- 28:31 Posted: Dec 2008
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- Larry Burns on the future of cars
- 09:12 Posted: Dec 2008
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- Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
- 33:38 Posted: Dec 2008
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- Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia
- 06:48 Posted: Dec 2008
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- Joseph Pine on what consumers want
- 14:19 Posted: Jan 2009
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- Bill Gross on new energy
- 19:55 Posted: Feb 2009
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- Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
- 20:16 Posted: Feb 2009
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- David Merrill demos Siftables
- 07:09 Posted: Feb 2009
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- Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
- 20:45 Posted: Feb 2009
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- Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science
- 18:50 Posted: Feb 2009
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- Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
- 08:42 Posted: Mar 2009
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- Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
- 16:23 Posted: Mar 2009
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- Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
- 16:23 Posted: Mar 2009
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- Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy
- 05:25 Posted: Mar 2009
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- David Pogue on cool phone tricks
- 27:03 Posted: Mar 2009
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- PW Singer on military robots and the future of war
- 16:05 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars
- 18:06 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
- 17:51 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
- 06:27 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises
- 14:33 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain
- 23:07 Posted: Apr 2009
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- Al Gore warns on latest climate trends
- 07:44 Posted: May 2009
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- Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
- 17:29 Posted: May 2009
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- Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals
- 10:02 Posted: May 2009
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- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
- 17:26 Posted: May 2009
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- Michelle Obama's plea for education
- 12:29 Posted: May 2009
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- Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
- 08:47 Posted: Jun 2009
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- Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
- 15:48 Posted: Jun 2009
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- Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'
- 16:42 Posted: Jul 2009
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- Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
- 06:32 Posted: Jul 2009
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- Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
- 16:43 Posted: Jul 2009
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- Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
- 16:51 Posted: Jul 2009
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- Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water ...
- 09:31 Posted: Aug 2009
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- Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
- 18:36 Posted: Aug 2009
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- Eric Giler demos wireless electricity
- 10:09 Posted: Aug 2009
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- Tim Brown urges designers to think big
- 16:50 Posted: Sep 2009
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- David Logan on tribal leadership
- 16:39 Posted: Oct 2009
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- Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
- 18:49 Posted: Oct 2009
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- David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"
- 04:57 Posted: Oct 2009
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- Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
- 14:50 Posted: Oct 2009
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- Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future
- 07:06 Posted: Oct 2009
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- Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
- 07:32 Posted: Oct 2009
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- Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy
- 08:51 Posted: Nov 2009
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- Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSens ...
- 13:50 Posted: Nov 2009
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- Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
- 09:54 Posted: Dec 2009
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- Anthony Atala on growing new organs
- 17:52 Posted: Jan 2010
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- David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer
- 23:44 Posted: Feb 2010
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- Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps
- 07:45 Posted: Feb 2010
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- Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
- 27:49 Posted: Feb 2010
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- Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story
- 16:32 Posted: Feb 2010
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- Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system
- 18:21 Posted: Feb 2010
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- Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
- 06:25 Posted: Mar 2010
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- Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
- 05:33 Posted: Mar 2010
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- Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-ani ...
- 05:34 Posted: Mar 2010
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- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
- 19:58 Posted: Apr 2010
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- Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
- 20:59 Posted: May 2010
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- Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil
- 09:48 Posted: May 2010
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- Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"
- 18:17 Posted: May 2010
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- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
- 16:48 Posted: May 2010
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- Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
- 22:59 Posted: Jun 2010
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- Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
- 21:24 Posted: Jun 2010
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- Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
- 18:58 Posted: Jun 2010
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- Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents
- 18:44 Posted: Jul 2010
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- Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy
- 10:55 Posted: Aug 2010
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- Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world
- 12:02 Posted: Aug 2010
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- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- 17:56 Posted: Aug 2010
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- Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation
- 18:53 Posted: Sep 2010
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- Gary Wolf: The quantified self
- 05:10 Posted: Sep 2010
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- Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
- 15:34 Posted: Oct 2010
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- David Bismark: E-voting without fraud
- 07:02 Posted: Nov 2010
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- Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
- 17:19 Posted: Nov 2010
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- Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?
- 16:34 Posted: Dec 2010
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- Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
- 11:40 Posted: Dec 2010
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- Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic
- 12:49 Posted: Jan 2011
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- Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
- 16:36 Posted: Jan 2011
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- Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy
- 06:04 Posted: Jan 2011
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- Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
- 14:04 Posted: Feb 2011
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- Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
- 10:16 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
- 17:24 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
- 20:27 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering
- 19:42 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons
- 06:23 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
- 04:14 Posted: Mar 2011
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- Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
- 14:34 Posted: Apr 2011
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- Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
- 07:49 Posted: Apr 2011
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- Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
- 04:34 Posted: Apr 2011
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- Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
- 09:40 Posted: May 2011
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- Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
- 05:35 Posted: May 2011
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- Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
- 18:24 Posted: May 2011
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- Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers
- 09:08 Posted: May 2011
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- Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
- 18:21 Posted: Jun 2011
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- A robot that flies like a bird
- 06:19 Posted: Jul 2011
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- Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
- 12:51 Posted: Aug 2011
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- Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
- 20:10 Posted: Aug 2011
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- Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
- 20:19 Posted: Sep 2011
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- Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch
- 18:32 Posted: Sep 2011
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- Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
- 12:45 Posted: Oct 2011
Favorite Speakers:
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Al Gore
- See all associated talks (3)
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Jimmy Wales
- Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia
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Nicholas Negroponte
- See all associated talks (4)
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Nick Bostrom
- Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems
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Ray Kurzweil
- See all associated talks (2)
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Chris Anderson (Wired)
- Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google
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Anand Agarawala
- Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop
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Andrew Mwenda
- Andrew Mwenda takes a new look at Africa
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Patrick Awuah
- Patrick Awuah on educating leaders
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Richard Branson
- Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet
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Newton Aduaka
- Newton Aduaka tells the story of Ezra
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Kwabena Boahen
- Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain
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David S. Rose
- David S. Rose on pitching to VCs
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Tim Berners-Lee
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David Merrill
- David Merrill demos Siftables
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Pranav Mistry
- See all associated talks (2)
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Juliana Machado Ferreira
- Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
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Joe Nyangon
- Joe Nyangon is a TED Fellow and was in the inaugural TED Fellows class of T ...
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kofi bentil
- Award winning Lecturer and Speaker, passionate about development for Africa ...
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Dominic Muntanga
- I am a social entrepreneur / political adviser/strategic planner based in ...
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Albert Buajor Puplampu
- PROFILE: I am a hard working, very reliable team player and very open to ...
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tselane tambo
- Lived in England, South African by origin. Now live in SA. Not interested ...
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Dave McQueen
- David McQueen is an entrepreneur, career activist, youth advocate, professi ...
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Tosan Arueyingho
- Born January 1982 in stuttgart Germany. Native of Nigeria. Currently a stud ...
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CHETA OFODILE
- medical student in nigeria africa
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Taurai Faranando
- Taurai Faranando is the founder and managing director of Centible Solutions ...
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Dominic Mahlangu
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Alexandre Arcanjo
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Rogerio Lourenco
- Linguistics. Anthropology. Digital Archiving. Information Visualization. De ...
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Sidney Webba
- Sou insatisfeito (Sempre quero mais de tudo...), adoro aprender e sempre bu ...
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