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Kevin Kelly: Technology's epic story

In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_technology_s_epic_story

Kevin Kelly: How technology evolves

Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_how_technology_evolves

Kevin Kelly: The next 5,000 days of the web

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?
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web

Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution

"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly -- and technology is much the same, driven by patterns that are surprising but inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profoun...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_how_ai_can_bring_on_a_second_industrial_revolution

Kevin Kelly | TED Speaker

There may be no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change than Kevin Kelly, whose life story reads like a treatise on the value and impacts of technology.
Digital visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kevin_kelly

Playlist: What happens when the robots take our jobs? (9 talks)

To lose our jobs to our future supreme AI overlords ... or to not? That's the question (and we have some surprising answers).
Curated by TED · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/what_happens_when_the_robots_take_our_jobs

Playlist: Brandon Boyd: 9 eye-opening talks (9 talks)

Brandon Boyd, lead singer of Incubus, says, "I hope to one day perform live music on the moon. Perhaps if all goes according to plan, we can make a TED Talk out of it!" We eagerly await this event. Until then, here are his favorite talks.
Curated by Brandon Boyd · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/brandon_boyd_9_eye_opening_ta

Playlist: Let’s get nerdy (11 talks)

Nerd out with these talks that prove you can use all-time classics like Harry Potter and Star Wars to help explain the real world.
Curated by TED · 11 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/let_s_get_nerdy

Playlist: Talks for when you wish you could go back to college (12 talks)

The joy of a new semester: picking classes you never knew existed. These are talks we wish were courses.
Curated by TED · 12 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/12_ted_talks_for_when_you_wish

Playlist: 30 years of TED (16 talks)

The first TED was held in 1984. What kind of predictions did people make 30 years ago? (And did they turn out to be right?) Watch the world change over three decades in this nearly year-by-year playlist.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/30_years_of_ted

Gary Wolf | TED Speaker

Journalist Gary Wolf spends his days in pursuit of the most fascinating things. As a contributing editor at Wired, he's written about technology, mushroom hunters, venture capitalists ...
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gary_wolf

Matthew Brookshire | TED Speaker

Matthew Brookshire is a songwriter and performer originally from North Carolina.
Songwriter, performer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/matthew_brookshire

Playlist: Personal tales from the edge of life (14 talks)

Beautiful, intimate and ultimately uplifting stories of challenge -- from making a new home in a strange country, to rebuilding life after unthinkable tragedy.
Curated by TED · 14 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/personal_tales_from_the_edge_o

TEDxYouth@HGS - an independently organized event

About this event: The theme of TEDxYouth@HGS is Singularity. Singularity apart from its basic meaning of being one of a kind, strange, unique, remarkable or unusual can have various other perceptions as well. In mathematics, Singularity theory studies spaces that are almost manifolds, but not quite. A string can serve as an example of a one-dimensional manifold i...
Event details: Udaipur, Rajasthan, India · November 3, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/24329

TEDxTheHague: Technology: Friend or Foe? - an independently organized event

About this event: You are cordially invited to the next TEDxTheHague salon! Our July edition — themed Technology: Friend or Foe? — is curated by TEDxTheHague regular Chris Kleingeld. Chris writes: "I think that technology is amazing. Technological advances have so much possibilities and potential that it changes our lives drastically. In terms of social media...
Event details: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands · July 12, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/9711

TEDxTEHS - an independently organized event

About this event: This event has been held in Tianjin Expermential High School with 3 session ----Our Country,Our Creative,and Our Life at Apr 22th, 2011. Session 1: 1.Show the speech of Martin Jacques :Understanding the rise of China 2.Compared the diffierence of education bewteen China and other countries,tell the disadvantages in China...
Event details: Tianjin, China · April 21, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2754

Why we need to create AI that thinks in ways that we can't even imagine

We usually think of AI as faster and better versions of human brains, but if we want technology to progress by leads and bounds, we must make AI that is like nothing else on Earth, says digital visionary Kevin Kelly. Because of a quirk in our evolutionary history, we are cruising as the only self-conscious species on our planet, leaving us with...
Posted May 23, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-need-to-create-ais-that-think-in-ways-that-we-cant-even-imagine

The INK Conference hosts President Obama

On Monday, the INK Conference (which is being held in partnership with TED) and the Rajeev Motwani Foundation hosted US President Barack Obama at an Expo on democracy and open government. The organizers were tasked with the critical job of showcasing new Indian innovations that might improve the relationship between citizens and government. ...
Posted November 11, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/11/11/the-ink-conference-hosts-president-obama

A look at TED, from 1984 through the present

The first TED was held in 1984, the year George Orwell imagined in his classic novel. The second was held in 1990. In 2006, TED Talks were offered online for the first time, free to anyone across the world who wanted to watch. In 2009, TED moved to its current home in Long Beach, California. As we prepare for TED2013 -- the anticipation of th...
Posted February 22, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/22/a-look-at-ted-from-1984-through-the-present

TED News in Brief: Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly to speak at TED2014, 37signals commits to staying small, and much more

This week has brimmed over with TED-related news. Here, some highlights: In 2011, Arizona legislator Gabby Giffords was shot in an assassination attempt. Now she and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, have founded Americans for Responsible Solutions, a bipartisan organization that has raised $6 million in six months for the creation of...
Posted February 5, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/02/05/ted-news-in-brief-gabby-giffords-and-mark-kelly-to-speak-at-ted2014

Meet the 110 speakers at TEDSummit 2016 (including some of the most popular of all time)

The number is 110: One hundred and ten past and new TED speakers are part of our newest conference, TEDSummit, happening in Banff, Canada, 26–30 June 2016. And you are invited to join us! Some of the most popular TED speakers of all time, including Dan Pink, David Gallo, Esther Perel, Kelly and Jane McGonigal, Pico Iyer and dozens more...
Posted March 29, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/03/29/110-new-and-past-ted-talks-speakers-at-tedsummit-2016-registration-is-open

TED News in Brief: A ruling on NSA phone surveillance, a beautiful essay from Rose George, and more

Behold, your weekly recap of TED-related news: Yesterday, a United States federal court ruled that the NSA’s surveillance of phone records is “likely” to be unconstitutional. The New York Times’ editorial board applauded the move today. TED speakers Mikko Hypponen (who gave the talk “How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust”) and Malte Spitz (w...
Posted December 17, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/17/ted-news-in-brief-a-ruling-on-nsa-phone-surveillance-a-beautiful-essay-from-rose-george-and-more

Meet the translator: Lidia Cámara de la Fuente, who translates into Spanish

TED Talks are available in 94 languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese, thanks to the tireless work of our translators. So far, more than 8,500 volunteers have created the upwards of 33,500 translated talks. To celebrate this accomplishment, every week the TED Blog is bringing you a Q&A with one of our most prolific translators. Today, meet Li...
Posted January 15, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/15/meet-the-translator-lidia-camara-de-la-fuente-who-translates-into-spanish

Playlist: Mikko Hypponen: 9 talks on tech ... and fish (9 talks)

Mikko Hypponen lays it out: "The talks I chose for my playlist are about technology, security or privacy. Because geeks. Then I added the talk from Dan Barber. Because fish."
Curated by Mikko Hypponen · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/mikko_hypponen_9_talks_on_tec

Announcing TED Conversations!

We're thrilled to announce today the launch of TED Conversations, a new social platform on TED.com that connects people for conversation, collaboration and debate. TED Conversations was designed and built from the ground up to foster meaningful conversation among the global community who watch, share and discuss TEDTalks. Anyone who part...
Posted February 16, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/02/16/announcing-ted-conversations

TEDxNYITSalon: Unconventional Leadership - an independently organized event

About this event: Last Wednesday, February 26th, the CEO club at NYIT hosted a TEDx event in unconventional leadership with Lorna Kelly, Kevin O'Connell and Courtney O'Connell. The club will host another TEDx in the upcoming months so stay tuned for more details!
Event details: New York, New York, United States · February 26, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/9072

The INK Conference: Day 1

On Thursday, December 10, India's INK Conference held its inaugural day of talks. Attendees gathered outside the theater doors at Lavasa Conference Center, anticipating three sessions of TED-like ideas. INK did not disappoint, delivering a day's worth of breathtaking perspective and innovation, both local and global. Session 1: Science...
Posted December 10, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/12/10/the-ink-conference-day-1

10 talks on predicting the future

We’re just a week into 2013, and the year seems filled with possibility. The turn of the New Year is generally an occasion to look back and reflect on the year that's passed -- the victories and defeats, the lives lost and the experiences found. But after we look back, we inevitably turn forward. We make resolutions and predictions for the y...
Posted January 7, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/07/10-talks-on-predicting-the-future

Playlist: The pros and cons of digital life (18 talks)

Our hyper-connected lives have been rewired for the digital age. These talks explore how the Internet and social media are shaping our relationships, personal lives and sense of self.
Curated by TED · 18 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/our_digital_lives

Pathways: Notes from Session 4 of TEDSummit

This morning's Session 4 explored the ways we connect -- the pathways our money takes, our communication, our trust, even our intelligence(s). Read on: Trust in your neighbor, but maybe not in your bank. Why is it that, despite being told "don't get into a car with a stranger" for as long as we can remember, five million of us opt to do this ...
Posted June 29, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/06/29/pathways-notes-from-session-4-of-tedsummit
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