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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Anarcho-capitalist vision of the distributed society ? 
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From OSCON 2014: Ryan Vinyard's keynote talk, "Open manufacturing: Bringing Open Hardware Beyond 3D Printing." Open source design has been a recent trend in hardware, but it tends to be limited to open libraries of 3D-printable parts. These are geared at makers, artists, hobbyists, and whoever else really wants to print their own figurines, not necessarily the engineering community.
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With the lowest number of community gathering places of all first world nations, it's time for the USA to transform space into place.
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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.
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In this hour, TED speakers unravel ideas behind the mystery of mass collaborations that build a better world.
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With the "ideas festival" season in full swing, Matthew Moore speaks to TED co-founder Richard Saul Wurman, whose first conference, in 1984, paved the way for all others.
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Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of WIRED moderated a Q&A with Bill Gates as part of the opening session of the third annual WIRED Business Conference in 2011.
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In 2010, the late security researcher — or as cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari would like you to call him, the late hacker — Barnaby Jack found a security flaw in two different models of automated teller machines (ATMs). Onstage at a tech security conference, hepublicly demonstrated his ability to make these machines spit out paper money, Elazari says at TED2014. “Barnaby Jack could have easily turned to a career criminal,” she says, “but he chose to show the world his research instead. Sometimes you have to demo a threat to spark a solution.”
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Mr. Porush Jain is the co-founder of Absolute Sports Pvt. Ltd, a start-up that runs the sports portal Sportskeeda.com, which is one of India's largest crowd-sourced web portals and the most viewed sports website in the country. In this TEDx talk, Mr. Jain speaks about how a successful start-up can be conceptualized, while stressing upon the fact that one should believe in one's idea and be passionate about following it.
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VANCOUVER, Canada — TED Curator Chris Anderson on Tuesday joked that the National Security Agency was watching Edward Snowden's appearance, which everyone thought was a surprise at the time. Then he threw conference-goers for another loop the next day when he announced that NSA Deputy Director Rich Ledgett would respond in a video interview.
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Watch some of the best TED Talks out there for nonprofits looking for a new perspective on their social media strategies. ("The new currency is trust, influence, and reputation capital." Rachel Botsman.
Sam Cloutier's curator insight,
October 15, 2014 8:43 AM
If you're looking for some inspiration, these TED Talks are not to be missed
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The focus on re-establishing more liveable cities continues unabated. The primary problem however is that 85 years of traffic engineering revolving around the car has failed miserably. It's time for modern thinking. Design can help. Historically, streets were human spaces. Let's design our cities like we design toasters or smartphones, following the desire lines of our citizens. Using basic design principles instead of engineering is the surest route to developing thriving, human cities.
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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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These TED Talks will inspire small changes for a more environmentally responsible lifestyle.
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Welcome to SXSW Eco Forward, where we take a look at what initiatives past SXSW Eco speakers and organizations are working on now. Today we're highlighting two previous keynotes, “The Story of Stuff” creator, Annie Leonard (2012), and street artist Shepard Fairey (2013).
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Although the Open Structures project is around for a while for some it might still seem in an early stage. As the people of Open Structures told us, they were caught up in an art-gallery context during the last years but now working slowly their way beyond that. They plan this year the first parts for selling themselve and you are of course invited to do the same.
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It always takes a while after TED to come to terms with what happened. It's supposed to get easier, but after my fifth year, I still have the same reaction. For me, the best way to think about TED is to compare it to an expedition in the mountains. Although it's not physical, it has many of the same attributes.
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Computerworld National Correspondent Julia King checks in from the Open Business Conference in San Francisco, where attendees were discussing how open source projects continue to grow within...
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The communication explosion reaches its peak when you explore the endless avenues running through TED Talks. Moreover, the title educator embodies many forms within these talks.
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http://www.ted.com We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
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As the conference wraps up its 30th anniversary Friday, here are six talks on leadership from the past
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VANCOUVER — It’s a few hours before the official opening of this year’s TED conference, and architect David Rockwell is showing me around the elaborate new theatre that houses the annual festival of ideas. A combination of Shakespeare’s Globe and the cozy amphitheater at TED’s original site in Monterey, California, it looks like the result of months of hard construction. But only a week ago, it was empty space.
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In a world where we are surrounded by technology — technology shapes the world around us — [most of our students] know nothing about how those things work.
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The latest project Carlo De Micheli is working on is OSVehicle, a new mindset in the automotive industry: a process that gives everyone the tools to develop his own vehicle. From a single prototype to a full scale production, open source methodologies and simplicity of construction are the principles behind the OSV magic. More info on www.tedxvilnius.com.
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