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The World is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video | Video Download
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.
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Podcasting
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital 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.
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Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Available on: Digital 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...
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The Long Tail
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital 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.
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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.
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Graduate Computer Architecture
by David Patterson
Available on: Online Video
Graduate survey of contemporary computer organizations
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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.
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Aircraft Systems Engineering
by Jeffrey Hoffman
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
16.885J offers a holistic view of the aircraft as a system, covering: basic systems engineering; cost and weight estimation; basic aircraft performance; safety and reliability; lifecycle topics; aircraft subsystems; risk analysis and management; and system realization.
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Web 2.0
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital 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...
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Immortality Institute: Legal Rights of Conscious Computers
by Martine Rothblatt
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Presentation at the Immortality Institute's conference in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, by Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. Title of presentation: Legal Rights of Concious Computers.
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Creative Commons
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital Download
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share.
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Technology and the Future Warrior
by Steve Altes
Available on: Online Video
The Super Soldier has one foot out of the lab, and will be reporting for battle by 2020. “Dutch” DeGay’s Army researchers have begun to “rebuild the soldier from the skin out.”
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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...
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Bruce Sterling on The Singularity
by Bruce Sterling
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
A Seminar About Long-term Thinking featuring Bruce Sterling examining The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole.
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Digital Logic - Michigan Tech University Course - EE 2171
by Kit Cischke
Available on: Digital Download
Introduces analysis, design, and application of digital logic.
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Art and Technology
by Alan Brody
Available on: Online Video
High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing
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Future of the Digital Commons
by Nancy Kranich
Available on: Digital Download
Arguments and legal confrontations over the control of music, writing and visual materials have become a permanent feature of contemporary life and will almost certainly enlarge and intensify in future years.
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising - Daniel H. Wilson speaks at Google
by Daniel H. Wilson
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
Daniel H. Wilson discusses his book "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips On Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion".
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Digg
Available on: Digital Download
Digg is a website with emphasis on technology news. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
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Jimmy Wales and Andrew Keen Debate Web 2.0
by Jimmy Wales
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Web 2.0: Amateur Hour or Mass-ive Knowledge? A debate with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and author Andrew Keen.
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ME++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
by William J. Mitchell
Available on: Online Video
Throughout history, humans have created unique physical spaces in which to live, work and socialize. But the digital age has completely transformed the places in which we conduct our affairs, according to William J. Mitchell.
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The Future of Work
by Thomas W. Malone
Available on: Online Video
In Thomas Malone’s optimistic view of the future, the human values of creativity and freedom ultimately triumph, and business leads the way.
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Inventing Modern America
by Christopher Lydon
Available on: Online Video
"Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse" celebrates the best of American ingenuity and inventiveness.
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Smart Mobs
by Howard Rheingold
Available on: Online Video
In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold ponders the next great techno-cultural shift as it plays out in a global society.
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The Emerging Mediascape
by Mark Jurkowitz
Available on: Online Video
‘500 channels and still nothing on’ is the gloomy assessment of these two media experts. In fact, what the public receives via TV and internet these days is often worse than nothing, at least where news and information are concerned.
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