Tagged: TED

Is the world ready for good news? (via Eideard)

I watched a movie in which they wrote the New York Times I think it was with only good news. You should have seen the confused looks of the people reading it. It was really well done. I often wonder why good news is so hard to accept. People have a hard time accepting compliments.

Yes it is, according to Bruno Giussani, European director for TED, the nonprofit organization that on Tuesday is beginning TEDGlobal 2010, its third conference in Oxford. “Someone has written, in presenting the conference, that good news is a species that is becoming extinct. If you look at any newspaper … we are bombarded by bad news,” he said as attendees chatted at a welcome party at Keble College on Monday. “But if you dig, if you look unde … Read More

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How Would Nature Solve This? (via The Dirt)

How we can use technology to attempt to copy nature.

How Would Nature Solve This? “We are surrounded by genius,” asserted Janine Benyus at the TED Global 2009 conference in Oxford, England in a talk highlighting recent innovations in biomimicry and asking designers to look to the brilliance of nature for inspiration. Benyus, co-founder and board President of the Biomimicry Institute, briefly introduced the new discipline of biomimicry and explained simply why human-created design should strive to function as the natural world … Read More

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Mysteries of the Mind Get Explored @ TED (via )

Some beautiful TED talks.

TED is a non-profit conference which features the best and brightest minds speaking about technology, entertainment and design. Here are a collection of interesting highlights in the series. JJ Abrams (creator of Lost, Cloverfield) talks about his motivation in creating films – which is the search for infinite possibility; in short – the mystery box.

In the following clip, Michael Shermer (founding publisher of Ske … Read More

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Social Media – Don’t take yourself too seriously (via Museums – Social Media Co-Creation)

Always fun watching these TED talks.

Maybe the very first blog entry should better be (contradictorily to its title) a bit more serious… But in fact I believe (and the research hasn’t yet gone any further then beliefs) that to whole point of getting people involved with ideas, contents and information is one’s the ability to – yes – take one’s audience but not oneself too seriously. Let’s have that as our starting point, shall we?! And let’s hear Alexis Ohanian, who nicely puts th … Read More

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TED: Jeff Hawkins – Brain Science Is About To Fundamentally Change Computing (via Metousiosis)

I’m ready for the change. Machine logic is so limited.

Jeff Hawkins presents a fascinating and provocative talk on the progress toward a theory of the brain; where he is contributing to a paradigm shift from a theory based on computation and processing to one based on memory and prediction. Profound. … Read More

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