Re: David Perry: Will videogames become better than life?
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Steven Johnson: The Web and the city
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http://www.ted.com Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on.
Doris Kearns Goodwin: What we can learn from past presidents
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http://www.ted.com Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.
David Perry: Will videogames become better than life?
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http://www.ted.com Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life.
Liz Diller: Architecture is a special effects machine
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http://www.ted.com In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
Noah Feldman: Politics and religion are technologies
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http://www.ted.com Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people.
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far
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http://www.ted.com Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable monkeys?).
Rodney Brooks: How robots will invade our lives
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http://www.ted.com In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond.
Dave Eggers TED Prize 4 Minute Talk
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Dave Eggers TED Prize 4 Minute Talk
Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
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http://www.ted.com Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.
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