- -: Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy
March 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)MIT Professor Dan Nocera believes he can solve the worlds energy problems with an Olympic-sized pool of water. Nocera and his research team have identified a simple technique for powering the Earth inexpensively by using the sun to split water and store energy - making the large-scale deployment...
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- -: Computers: Not Making You Smarter - Susan Jacoby
June 12, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/24/Susan_Jacoby_on_The_Age_of_American_Unreason Author Susan Jacoby argues that computers do not enhance our intelligence but are simply tools. ------ Writer and scholar Susan Jacoby is sure to raise some hackles with The Age of American Unreason - an ...
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- -: The Evolution of Culture - Paul Ehrlich
August 15, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/27/Paul_Ehrlich_The_Dominant_Animal Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich discusses the rapidly-accelerating evolution of human culture. ---- Paul Ehrlich gives a seminar at the Long Now Foundation on his book, The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the En...
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- -: Ingenuity of the Inuit: The Tale of the 'S**t Knife' - Wade Davis
January 27, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/Wade_Davis_Why_Ancient_Wisdom_Matters_in_the_Modern_World Wade Davis, author of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, contrasts Western perception of the Inuit as "savages" with the endless inventiveness he sees in their way ...
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- -: Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha on the Future of Search
March 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Search Drawing from location awareness and voice recognition technologies, representatives from Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha weigh in on the future of Internet search. Bing's Blaise Aguera y Arcas promises a revised form of ...
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- -: Merging Art and Technology to Improve the World - Peter Hirshberg
March 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Maps Peter Hirshberg, co-founder and chairman of The Conversation Group, narrates the historical tensions between art and technology. His projects use crime reports, pollution data, and crowd-sourcing to help bridge the gap be...
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- -: Geoengineering: Playing God With the Environment?
March 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/23/Geoengineering_Global_Salvation_or_Ruin Will clearing the air of pollutants actually increase global warming? A panel of climate experts discusses the ethical and scientific implications of geoengineering. "No matter what we do, we are already enginee...
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- -: Google's Public Data Explorer: A New Tool for Visualizing Information
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/18/Logan_Symposium_Google_Public_Data_Explorer Using Google's new Public Data Explorer tool, Ola Rosling demonstrates the effectiveness of visualizing datasets. Looking toward the next political election, Rosling hopes voters will use the tool to answer ...
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- -: The First Technology? Humanity Itself
December 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/03/Kevin_Kelly_What_Technology_Wants In defining the corpus of technological invention as "the technium," Kevin Kelly defines humanity itself as the first technology, declaring that we created ourselves. "We are the created and the creator," says Kelly. ...
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- -: What Drives Human Evolution and Innovation?
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, journalist and author of The Rational Optimist, examines the driving force behind human evolution and technological innovation, especially over the past 100,000 years. Ridley argues the answer lies in the develop...
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