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Top Talk Videos from TED, The Life and World Conference
TED started as Technology, Entertainment & Design and is now a very broad conference covering talks about Life and the World in general, this has included insights into the Human Mind, notes from Africa, World changing Ideas, Adventures, on Designs and Visualization and many more. TED speeches are typically 15-20 minutes and a lot of them are available for viewing online or can be downloaded at http://www.ted.com
I first got a glimpse of it when I watched the documentary, The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED It was a great experience, and I learnt about many things outside my current world.
So this year when the TED 2008 was going on, I attended a virtual TED conference of my own, watching speeches from previous TED conference.
Here are the Top Presentation Videos from TED, The Life and World Conference:
To explore the limits of our potential. The title says it all, he did it solo.
Very practical, loved it. Few worth noting, let kids dismantle appliances and learn to handle fire
Insights and experiments into synthetic happiness(being happy with what you get) and how it is same as real happiness. Too many choices will reduce your chances at synthesized happiness.
On why Joy is defendable and what inspiration for kids changes a field.
Outstanding visualization of changing status of developing countries like India over the previous five decades.
On a project to create a park in New York.
Why there is no perfect spaghetti sauce and what it teaches us about creating products
Making things
The idea for new form of interacting with computers that we see in the iPhone.
Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos on what Internet industry is like the Electrical one.
When creating something, when working for somebody, target it at people(customers) who care and it just might take off.
Projects on datamining and visualizing people interacting on the Web
A humorous poem
Motivation talk. Some points. Seek to create and thereby get to achievement. Then up the ante and do it faster, better. Grow or stagnant. Use uncertainity to stay out of boredom.
Using the human brain’s prediction methods for computing
A telescope controlled by anyone.
Ideas such as Freedom, Capitalism, Religion are Memes. Memes are viruses, spreading, affecting everyone, changing the world, killing scores of people.
An architect and his buildings including Exploration Place, Wichita, Kansas, Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem, Israel and Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, Anandpur, India
On how technology grows at a increasing rate.
Do watch a few which call out to you.