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- -: Embracing the Internet's Velocity of Change - Ken Auletta

October 11, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2010 Journalist and author Ken Auletta argues that while the Internet is not the most transformative technology in history, it has drastically sped up the velocity of change. Traditional media executives are scared of this ...

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- -: Netflix CEO Predicts Gigabit to the Home by 2021

May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Complete Premium video at: Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings discusses how the company has been focused on streaming video via the Internet since its beginnings, but "the network wasn't big enough." Now he predicts gigab...

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- -: Google's Vint Cerf: What Can Gigabit Do for You?

July 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Google VP and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf outlines the goals for Google's gigabit Internet project, which plans to bring an ultra high-speed fiber network to Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. ----- An Intern...

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- -: OnLive Makes Remote Computing Feel Local

August 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Steven Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive, demonstrates the company's latest service, which allows users to remotely run a top-of-the-line computer on any device (laptop, tablet, etc.) in real time over the internet. ----- Flash...

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- -: How China's Digital Infrastructure Creates Hurdles for E-Commerce

September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/l2_china Valerie Hoecke, digital experience VP at Benefit Cosmetics, details the challenges of providing a good internet experience for users in China, from outdated browsers to inconsistent network speeds. "The internet is really just heavily overloa...

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- -: A Vision for High Speed Rail

April 16, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Joined by famed rail enthusiast Vice President Biden, the President releases his vision for high speed rail as funded by the Recovery Act and the coming budget. White House, April 16, 2009. (Public Domain)

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Kwabena Boahen: A Computer That Works Like the Brain

June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)

Kwabena Boahen explores the structure and foundations of the human brain to get data to use for building a computer that works exactly like the human brain.

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Source: TED

Carl Honore: Praising Slowness

July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)

In this talk, journalist and author Carl Honore tells us about the Slow Movement. He discusses the need to slow things down from our everyday race so that we would get a much higher quality of life.

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Source: TED

Sheila Patek: Clocking the Fastest Animals

February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)

In this talk, Biologist Sheila Patek tells us about the feeding strike of the Mantis shrimp. She describes the smashing type of strike the mantis shrimp makes and how it is able to achieve such a fast and powerful movement.

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Source: TED

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