- -: Lorrie Moore: Why Reading Is Vital
March 30, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Author Lorrie Moore discusses the importance of reading literature. She argues that, while watching a good movie is better than reading a bad book, the power of the written word remains unmatched. ----- This excerpt ...
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- -: Old School: Universities Still Hotbed of Innovation
April 27, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation MIT president Susan Hockfield defends the traditional higher learning system's ability to cultivate and foster innovation. Ideas still come out of the "culture of collaboration" found on college campuses, says Hockfiel...
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- -: Does Email Make Workers Less Efficient?
May 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Justine Thody presents study results that detail the impacts of digital distractions on productivity in the workplace. Thody emphasizes that even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, email remains the greatest culprit. ...
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- -: The Internet Kill Switch: Is Online Access a Right?
May 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Advancing_the_New_Machine_Communication_Blackouts Eric Blantz, senior director of Inveneo, analyzes the idea of an internet kill switch from a human rights perspective. He argues that until there is a way to make a kill switch that is "democratically ...
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- -: What Can Singapore Teach US Innovators?
May 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/24/Innovation_Circulation_Frugal_Engineering_Comes_Home Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Reflecting on Singapore's highly successful economy, Dr. Curtis Carlson, president and CEO of SRI International, outlin...
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- -: Twitter Co-Founder Had Idea at Age 8
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chairman of Twitter, and CEO of Square, explains that he had the idea for Twitter when he was eight years old, and first outlined the communications platform when he was 14. His inspiration ...
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- -: Has the Industrial Age Finally Run Out of Gas?
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, argues that the hierarchical institutions of the industrial age are over, and that new models of participatory communication will usher in greater tra...
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- -: How the Written Word Transformed Humanity
July 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/19/James_Gleick_Bits_and_Bytes James Gleick, author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, explores the deep implications that the development of writing had on humanity. Despite opposition from great thinkers like Plato, the ability to write ...
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- -: Communicating with Aliens: A Complicated Science
July 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Does intelligent life exist on other worlds? If so, how would we communicate with it? Astrophysicist Martin Rees discusses the complicated science of contacting extraterrestrial species. ----- President of the ...
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- -: The Future of Cloud Enabled Devices
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/01/Anthony_Townsend_The_Future_of_Lightweight_Innovation Institute For The Future's Anthony Townsend demonstrates the benefits of Internet connected devices, such as sensors on a bicycle. Townsend explains how people and cities are able to gather data ab...
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