Future

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of future.

Video playlists about Future

What does the future look like?

13 talks • 3h 25m
Visions of the future of everything from cars to the Internet to the human species.

The Remix

9 talks • 1h 52m
DJs make remixes, cross-pollinating old sounds with new. But all of us engage in this conversation between the past and present, making ideas resonate over and over again.

Graduation…now what?

5 talks • 1h 3m
Great life advice for the moment after you throw your mortarboard in the air.

Talks that prove you already live in the future

10 talks • 2h 6m
That crazy, sci-fi future we all imagine? It’s here.
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Talks about Future

14:49

Kai-Fu Lee

How AI can save our humanity

Posted Aug 2018
7:15

Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Fake videos of real people — and how to spot them

Posted Jul 2018
4:59

Pratik Shah

How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

Posted Jul 2018
15:08

Dan Gibson

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Posted Jul 2018
10:50

Kola Masha

How farming could employ Africa's young workforce — and help build peace

Posted Jul 2018
12:41

Gary Liu

The rapid growth of the Chinese internet — and where it's headed

Posted Jul 2018
14:15

Jennifer Wilcox

A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Posted Jul 2018
8:08

Rodin Lyasoff

How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel

Posted Jun 2018
13:13

Vishaan Chakrabarti

How we can design timeless cities for our collective future

Posted Jun 2018
16:32

James Bridle

The nightmare videos of children's YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today

Posted Jun 2018
9:27

Giada Gerboni

The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots

Posted Jun 2018
17:15

Max Tegmark

How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI

Posted Jun 2018
13:31

Sam Rodriques

What we'll learn about the brain in the next century

Posted Jun 2018
11:51

John Doerr

Why the secret to success is setting the right goals

Posted Jun 2018
10:01

Heidi M. Sosik

The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone

Posted Jun 2018
13:05

Enric Sala

Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve

Posted Jun 2018
See all 245 talks on Future

Exclusive articles about Future

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