The Wayback Machine: Preserving the History of Web Pages
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Brewster_Kahle_Universal_Access_to_All_Knowledge Founder Brewster Kahle discusses the inner workings of the Internet Archive's most famous service, the Wayback Machine. He explains that in addition to providing users a dose of nostalgia, it can also be used to prevent people from rewriting history. ... Read more
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- -: The Wayback Machine: Preserving the History of Web Pages
December 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Brewster_Kahle_Universal_Access_to_All_Knowledge Founder Brewster Kahle discusses the inner workings of the Internet Archive's most famous service, the Wayback Machine. He explains that in addition to providing users a dose of nostalgia, it can also b...
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- -: TEDxGhent - Philip van de Gehuchte - Decap Beat Machine
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Philip van de Gehuchte runs a cross-media company and is part of the art collective "Le Monde Dumas", whose main goal is innovating new ways to revive the zeitgeist from the past in a modern way. One specific project is the Decap Beat Machine. A large dance organ, filled with automated instrument...
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- -: Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doe...
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- -: Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
October 13, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers ...
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- -: Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
July 29, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
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- -: P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
April 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself
January 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater as a giant "theatrical machine" that reconfigures itself at the...
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- -: Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
July 22, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications. TEDTalk...
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- -: Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
March 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectu...
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- -: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an ent...
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