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Dan Dennett
Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
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Mar 2009
26:42
Stuart Brown
Play is more than just fun
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Mar 2009
21:56
Paula Scher
Great design is serious, not solemn
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Jan 2009
15:37
Rob Forbes
Ways of seeing
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Jan 2009
18:54
Greg Lynn
Organic algorithms in architecture
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Jan 2009
28:31
Philip Rosedale
Life in Second Life
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Dec 2008
23:23
Stewart Brand
The Long Now
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Nov 2008
17:40
Paola Antonelli
Design and the Elastic Mind
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Oct 2008
16:30
Steven Johnson
The Web as a city
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Oct 2008
19:24
Liz Diller
The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture
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Oct 2008
22:42
Steven Pinker
Human nature and the blank slate
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Sep 2008
18:27
Caleb Chung
Playtime with Pleo, your robotic dinosaur friend
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Sep 2008
31:39
Peter Hirshberg
The web is more than "better TV"
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Sep 2008
16:22
Kwabena Boahen
A computer that works like the brain
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Jul 2008
19:34
Kevin Kelly
The next 5,000 days of the web
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Jul 2008
15:21
Reed Kroloff
A tour of modern architecture
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Jul 2008
16:40
Nicholas Negroponte
One Laptop per Child, two years on
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Jun 2008
17:18
George Dyson
The birth of the computer
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Jun 2008
19:57
Hector Ruiz
The thinking behind 50x15
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May 2008
31:57
Norman Foster
My green agenda for architecture
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Mar 2008
44:38
Frank Gehry
My days as a young rebel
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Mar 2008
20:37
Alan Kay
A powerful idea about ideas
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Mar 2008
17:46
Moshe Safdie
Building uniqueness
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Feb 2008
21:35
David Macaulay
An illustrated journey through Rome
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Feb 2008
22:00
Frank Gehry
A master architect asks, Now what?
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Jan 2008
18:17
Paola Antonelli
Treat design as art
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Jan 2008
16:57
Ron Eglash
The fractals at the heart of African designs
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Nov 2007
18:56
Lawrence Lessig
Laws that choke creativity
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Nov 2007
23:34
VS Ramachandran
3 clues to understanding your brain
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Oct 2007
16:37
Will Wright
Spore, birth of a game
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Jul 2007
24:37
David Rockwell
A memorial at Ground Zero
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Jun 2007
7:30
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images
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May 2007
19:44
James Howard Kunstler
The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs
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May 2007
20:05
William McDonough
Cradle to cradle design
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Apr 2007
20:40
Thom Mayne
How architecture can connect us
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Apr 2007
13:25
Michael Shermer
Why people believe weird things
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Nov 2006
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