#ted global

[jupitusmercury]

[2718datapoints-blog]

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.  

(via Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world - YouTube)

[cmpickard-interfaces-blog]

Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia in this powerful Talk from TEDGlobal 2011.

[socialcolectivo]

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TED: why business can be good at solving social problems by Porter

[mothermetroid]

[democracyos]

If Internet is the new printing press, then what is democracy for the Internet era?

Pia Mancini at Ted Global 2014

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[phillynessa]

We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

[tedxbeaconstreet]

Meet Duncan Davidson, co-founder of Luma Labs LLC, t-h-e main stage photographer for every TED and TEDGlobal event since 2009 and a speaker for our 2013 TEDxBeaconStreet conference!  To illustrate he is a mere mortal, here's a fun fact about Duncan: "I named two of the technologies I worked on at JavaSoft after the kinds of animals I hoped would be on the O’Reilly books that covered them, should those projects succeed. The projects succeeded, however O’Reilly used different animals as they thought using a Tomcat or Ant on the cover of those books would be too obvious."