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A 3D printer for molecules: Lee Cronin at TEDGlobal 2012

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A 3D printer for molecules: Lee Cronin at TEDGlobal 2012

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Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow. At TEDGlobal last year he took the stage to describe his audacious idea to create inorganic life. This year, he is presenting a short talk on another ambitious idea: a 3D printer that, instead of printing objects, prints molecules. The question he starts with is, “Could we make a []

Tinker Make Do: Session 2 at TEDGlobal2012

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Tinker Make Do: Session 2 at TEDGlobal2012

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Click above to watch the session-opening animation. The extraordinary rise of virtual tools for collaboration and invention have given rise to a new form of creativity: making physical things. From the maker community to hobbyists to open-sourced machined blueprints, there has been a huge movement toward taking the ethos of the open, sharable web and []

Open-source security: James Stavridis at TEDGlobal 2012

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Open-source security: James Stavridis at TEDGlobal 2012

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson Admiral James Stavridis is the Supreme Commander of NATO. He is a proponent of what he calls open-source security. He is looking at 21st century security in a very different way than we’ve looked at security before. From walls to bridges Looking back to the security paradigm of the recent past, he []

Stand up and dance: Raghu Dixit at TEDGlobal 2012

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Stand up and dance: Raghu Dixit at TEDGlobal 2012

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Photos: James Duncan Davidson “I’m so nervous,” says a very sweet Raghu Dixit as he takes the TEDGlobal stage. The former microbiologist tells us that he quit his career 15 years ago “to become a rockstar.” Whereas one might usually scoff at such half-baked plans, TEDGlobal turns out to be the place where it’s actually paid off. []

Human-machine synergy: Shyam Sankar at TEDGlobal 2012

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Human-machine synergy: Shyam Sankar at TEDGlobal 2012

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson Shyam Sankar, a data intelligence agent working at Palantir, leads off his talk with two games of chess. In 1997 Gary Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, a machine. It was an event remembered by many as a pivotal moment in the relationship between humans and computers. “To many, this was the []

Welcome to the open world: Don Tapscott at TEDGlobal 2012

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Welcome to the open world: Don Tapscott at TEDGlobal 2012

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson Don Tapscott has written 14 books about the digital, super-connected, hyper-collaborative world, and he has the distinct responsibility of officially kicking off Critical Crossroads, the first session of this year’s TEDGlobal conference. He gets a laugh early on: “Openness is a word denoting opportunity, possibilities, open-ended, open hearts, open source, open bar…” Tapscott []

Critical Crossroads: Session 1 at TEDGlobal2012

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Critical Crossroads: Session 1 at TEDGlobal2012

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Click above to watch the session-opening animation It’s time for TEDGlobal2012! We’ve gathered in beautiful Edinburgh for what we are quite sure will be a thought-provoking, mind-expanding conference. The overall theme of the event this year? Radical openness. As TEDGlobal2012 co-curator and TED’s European director Bruno Giussani reminded us, this is always a founding principle []

TEDGlobal 2012 Fellows Talks: A recap of Session 2

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Photo: Ryan Lash Andrew Nemr, tap dancerAndrew takes the stage again – one built especially for his performance here – to dance in improv based on his time at TED so far. Even as his rhythms – some familiar, some confounding – intensify, he dances as naturally as walking … painting with his body and []