Jeremy Rifkin on “the empathic civilization”
In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society.
New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
TEDYouth
Meet 9 awesome TEDYouth teens, from a claymation animator to a speed stacker
At TEDYouth, music producer Young Guru will talk about the future of hip hop, Curiosity rover flight director Bobak Ferdowsi will explain how the heck he got a two ton machine to Mars and science writer Carl Zimmer will present his favorite parasite. But at this event — taking place on November 17 at the […]
Business
Five big ideas from TED@Intel
Last week, Intel hosted a unique event — an afternoon of TED Talks delivered by their very own resident innovators, thinkers and dreamers. Through a partnership with TED, they received guidance on event production and curation. The final product — TED@Intel, themed “the future in progress” — was a moment for the organization to celebrate […]
ed whyman commented on Sep 3 2010
full comment is http://whymandesign.posterous.com (the comment got cut off:)
ed whyman commented on Sep 3 2010
Love it all. These animations make audio so much more enjoyable:)
Can you open source your great software and also allow us the community to improve it with you (without your permission)? Trusting human nature is key:). Can you fund this development (which will benefit you)?
Crowdsourcing can be one way to democratically solve many problems as they can be solved without anyones permission by groups of people who agree on a given goal. We (the crowd) would like to help develop what everyone is doing. How can I/you/they enable us the crowd to improve your work (without having to get permission?). How can this be done for any Charity, organisation or government?
There are several things that any organisation can do to help us the crowd improve your work…
A.
You can release your software as open source so everyone can use it for other ‘do good’ activities (and help you improve it).
Read up on the benefits of sharing online so that the rest of the world can benefit from your great work rather than just a few people.
B.
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