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.
See all 11 playlists on Future

Talks about Future

8:39

Karoliina Korppoo

How a video game might help us build better cities

Posted Sep 2017
10:51

Radhika Nagpal

What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

Posted Sep 2017
11:03

Tomás Saraceno

Would you live in a floating city in the sky?

Posted Sep 2017
12:18

Daan Roosegaarde

A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs

Posted Sep 2017
12:16

Robin Hanson

What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?

Posted Aug 2017
14:20

Peter Calthorpe

7 principles for building better cities

Posted Aug 2017
10:07

Anne Madden

Meet the microscopic life in your home — and on your face

Posted Aug 2017
14:33

Marc Raibert

Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors

Posted Jul 2017
13:07

Kate Marvel

Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?

Posted Jul 2017
12:36

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

How we can face the future without fear, together

Posted Jul 2017
18:38

David Miliband

The refugee crisis is a test of our character

Posted Jun 2017
14:41

Anab Jain

Why we need to imagine different futures

Posted Jun 2017
22:12

Jim Yong Kim

Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?

Posted Jun 2017
7:08

Richard Browning

How I built a jet suit

Posted Jun 2017
15:20

Garry Kasparov

Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them

Posted May 2017
9:03

Triona McGrath

How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry

Posted May 2017
See all 195 talks on Future

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