Everyone can use technology. Everyone. Marc Goodman starts, cheerily, by saying, “I study the future of crime and terrorism. And quite frankly I’m afraid.” He want to believe that technology will be the utopia, as many hope. But he’s spent his life in law enforcement around the world, and that has given him a perspective […]
As the US’s first Deputy CTO, Beth Noveck founded the White House Open Government Initiative, which developed administration policy on transparency, participation and collaboration. She starts her talk by reminding us that in the old days, the White House was literally an open house. At the beginning of the 19th century, John Quincy Adams met a local […]
From Bihar to the World Bank Sanjay Pradhan grew up in Bihar, India’s poorest state. He came home one day, at 6 years old, to find a cart of sweets at the front door. He and his brothers greedily dug in — but when his father came home, he was livid. Those sweets, it turns […]
A list of regrets Jane McGonigal is a gamer, so she likes to have goals and special missions. For this talk, her goal is to increase the lifespan of everyone in the audience by 7.5 minutes. Our secret mission: How will we spend these bonus minutes? (To back that up, she has math! Well, science, that […]
Jason McCue takes the stage wearing a T-shirt reading “Free Yulia in Ukraine.” It’s a reference to the 2011 imprisonment of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko and a hint of what’s to come in his talk: a discussion of terrorism and the law. “We are at war with a new form of terrorism,” he says. The traditional […]
Geo-strategist and author Parag Khanna has put together this session, which promises to be enlightening, thought-provoking, and perhaps just a little bit scary. Read our Q&A with Khanna to get his take on why he’s invited these speakers to the TED stage. And, get ready. In this session: Sanjay Pradhan is vice president of the World […]
Snap judgements of others Amy Cuddy starts by asking us to pay attention to what we’re doing with our bodies. Are our shoulders hunched? Are we trying to not bump into the person next to us? Are we sprawled out? “We’re fascinated with body language,” she says. We dissect and analyze and judge people, and […]
TEDGlobal loves Marco Tempest. For the TEDGlobal stage he’s bringing something brand-new. (Behind him — the playable titles spelling out his name.) For the trick, he straps on a pair of augmented reality goggles wired up to the big screen, so we can see what he sees — and a little bit more. Nothing makes […]
What is your reputation? “If someone asked you for the three words that would sum up your reputation, what would you say?” Rachel Botsman asks us. “The answer to this question will become profoundly important in an age where reputation will become your most important asset.” She introduces us to Sebastian, a host on Airbnb, […]
“12 years ago I cofounded Zipcar,” says Robin Chase. “Zipcar buys cars and parks them through dense metropolitan areas for people to use by the hour or day instead of owning their own cars.” Each Zipcar replaced 17 personal cars and caused drivers to drive 80% less. But Chase isn’t here to wax nostalgic. She’s here […]
Play at http://www.thehumantype.org. Director’s statement: “An online application that allows strangers to talk to each other using a new typeset alphabet made entirely out of people. A tribute to typography, craftsmanship and relations between humans, people.” — Giuliano Garonzi Production: Peter Lundgren – T-Post – http://www.tpostmag.com Concept / Direction / Design: Giuliano Garonzi – http://www.giulianogaronzi.com […]
Click to watch the session-opening animation The promise of a globalized world is that we can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world. But how do we engage with people we’ve never met in person? Can you talk to strangers? Should you? Session 8 at TEDGlobal 2012 delves into one of the hardest problems of human […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Via the TED Fellows blog: Usman Riaz closed out the Wednesday sessions of TEDGlobal with an extraordinary performance on his percussive guitar, delighting the audience. Then he was joined onstage by his hero, Preston Reed, the inventor of the style, for a fast-moving and poignant duet, bringing down the house. Here’s […]
By now we’re all pretty familiar with the theory of presentations. Slides need to be bold, beautiful. They need to go easy on the amount of text they’re asking the audience to compute in a hurry. Speakers should speak to slides but not read slavishly from them. Still, sometimes a presentation comes along to show […]
TEDGlobal Fellow Usman Riaz is an innovative musician who plays with vim and verve. He’s taken to the stage to enchant the assembled crowd with a virtuoso round of percussive guitar. But that’s not all. After one song, out comes the guy who invented percussive guitar playing– Riaz’s personal hero–Preston Reed. Um. His playing has the audience […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson The old adage goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. However, speakers during Day 2 of TEDGlobal 2012—the annual conference where thinkers in a variety of fields present their ideas—made it clear that there’s a lot out there in need of fixing. Giving a range of examples — from the […]