On the top floor of the theater, the SyFy Network supported a groovy social space called the Playroom — featuring a director’s-eye view of each camera on our 8-camera shoot. On Friday, as part of the hosted conversation series, TED2010 speaker Jane McGonigal came to the Playroom to talk about her new game, Evoke.
Steven Johnson’s new book, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, tackles subjects ranging from underground music video makers to New York’s 311 telephone service to the planning of the French railway system to Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger and the “miracle on the Hudson.” His point? That new solutions to old problems are […]
Speedy delivery: Andreas Raptopoulos at TEDGlobal 2013Andreas Raptopoulos wants to serve the 1 billion people on Earth with no access to all-season roads — the one-seventh of the world’s population that is too often cut off from critical medicines, supplies and goods. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 85% of roads are unusable in rainy season. Infrastructure is being built, but at this […]
