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In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some lessons and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
Larry-Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some hilarious remixes.
The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush. Amazon.com founder Jeff-Bezos offers evidence showing how similar they were.
Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank-Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work.
A transistor is the fundamental building block of all modern electronics...so how can we make them smaller? Artist Geoff McFetridge takes a frolic through the engineering wonders of the ever shrinking transistor that Intel is now creating.
Novelist Amy-Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride with a surprise.
Fazle Abed's organization BRAC has attained success in fighting poverty on an unparalleled scale -- in Bangladesh and now in several other countries. He shares his experiences as a leader of the citizen sector, and offers advice to like-minded organizations seeking to create viable, broad and long-lasting change.
Nanostellar CEO Pankaj Dhingra takes us into the lab where the company is cooking up new ways of reducing auto-emissions around the world.
Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas-Negroponte waxes on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word "convergence," Negroponte was thinking about the "electronic books of the future" and computers as the future of education.
In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED's 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project.
Why does poverty still exist despite decades of development aid?
In this talk, Iqbal-Quadir explains why "aid does damages: because it empowers authorities instead of people," and advocates a new approach to development from below, "by the people for the people." His own experience as a child in Bangladesh and later a banker in New York brought him to realize that "connectivity is productivity" -- and that a simple cell phone has enormous power. Now his telecom company, Grameenphone, offers service to most of rural Bangladesh, creating new opportunities by connecting villages.
Law professor Yochai-Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.
AsktheBuilder.com's Tim Carter is one publisher who's been able to do great things with AdSense. Here's his story on moving from building houses to building websites and how AdSense has helped him grow.
Hector-Ruiz talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD's 50x15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50% of the world to the Internet by 2015.
Dr. Yunus shares his strategies for building businesses dedicated to the social good. He describes the founding and structure of Grameen Bank, Grameenphone and other companies he has created to find new solutions.
In response to the overwhelming poverty in Bangladesh, Fazle H. Abed created the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, or BRAC. His organization has already helped lift over 35 million people out of poverty through comprehensive education, health-care and microfinance programs in Bangladesh.
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Dr. Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, offers his insights into what is required to eradicate global poverty. Yunus envisions a new kind of capitalism, and demonstrates how his organizations, the Grameen-Bank and the Grameen Family of Companies, offer viable solutions to pervasive poverty.
Open Forum: What Innovations Lead to Social and Economic Changes?
The promotion of sustainable economic development around the world must integrate the poor as active producers and consumers. To this end, social entrepreneurs are creating possibilities in unique ways.
The agenda points are:
- The practices that make a difference?
- The impact of increased access to markets by poor producers?
