| |
|
1. |
|
The World is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home.
|
| |
|
2. |
|
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
by Chris Anderson
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Podcast
The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. He makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
|
| |
|
3. |
|
Mammalian Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
In this talk, leading genetist Rudolf Jaenisch delivers a clear overview of the challenges facing the cloning, dispelling many of the misconceptions about cloning that are pervasive in popular media.
|
| |
|
4. |
|
Podcasting
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio Download
Podcasting is a term used to describe a collection of technologies for automatically distributing audio and video programs over the internet using a publisher/subscriber model.
|
| |
|
5. |
|
The Art of Internet Marketing
by Pamela Swingley
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The Art of Internet Marketing with Pamela Swingley.
|
| |
|
6. |
|
Software Breakthroughs
by Bill Gates
Available on: Online Video
Bill Gates’ talk at MIT provided an optimistic view of the next generation of computer science, now that the “rough draft” is done.
|
| |
|
7. |
|
Billy Graham: Technology, Faith and Human Shortcomings
by Billy Graham
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives.
|
| |
|
8. |
|
The Semantic Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
Available on: Online Video
It’s hard to keep up with the mastermind of the World Wide Web. In his fast-paced address, Tim Berners-Lee not only recaps the origins of the Internet, but sketches its future.
|
| |
|
9. |
|
Graduate Computer Architecture
by David Patterson
Available on: Online Video
Graduate survey of contemporary computer organizations
|
| |
|
10. |
|
Nanotechnology
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
What is nanotechnology? Will it change the world, as some have promised? What's all this about molecular machines in our blood?
|
| |
|
11. |
|
Focus on Educational Innovation
by Charles Vest
Available on: Online Video
These MIT panelists discuss their efforts to expand the educational horizons of learners from K to well beyond 12 with new technological tools and resources.
|
| |
|
12. |
|
Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Available on: Audio Download
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity...
|
| |
|
13. |
|
Bill Gates: How I'm Trying to Change the World Now
by Bill Gates
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
|
| |
|
14. |
|
James Watson on How He Discovered DNA
by James Watson
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA.
|
| |
|
15. |
|
The Long Tail
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio Download
The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in a 2004 article in Wired magazine [1] to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix.
|
| |
|
16. |
|
The Human Genome Project
by Eric S. Lander
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist and a mathematician, with research interests in human genetics, mouse genetics, population genetics and computational and mathematical methods in biology.
|
| |
|
17. |
|
Aubrey de Grey Says We Can Avoid Aging
by Aubrey de Grey
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.
|
| |
|
18. |
|
All Marketers are Liars - Seth Godin speaks at Google
by Seth Godin
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book.
|
| |
|
19. |
|
Earth's Most Customer Centric Company
by Jeff Bezos
Available on: Online Video
In this lively presentation Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com discusses many of the technological advances that have enabled Amazon.com to be the "earth's most customer centric company".
|
| |
|
20. |
|
Web 2.0
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio Download
The term "Web 2.0" refers to development of the World Wide Web, including its architecture and its applications. However, a consensus upon its exact meaning has not yet been reached. A growing chorus of skeptics argue that the term is essentially meaningless...
|
| |
|
21. |
|
Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
by Mark Walport
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Designer Babies: Human genetic engineering is a step too far.
|
| |
|
22. |
|
Human Cloning and Human Rights
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
Ignore the noisy debate around cloning, Rudolf Jaenisch quietly insists, and instead look closely at the biology involved.
|
| |
|
23. |
|
A Public Debate On The Limits of Intelligent Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper 'On Computable Numbers' featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions.
|
| |
|
24. |
|
Our Bodies, Our Technologies
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the species that invented them?
|
| |
|
25. |
|
The Graphing Calculator Story
by Ron Avitzur
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
It's midnight. I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices...
|