Looking at the intersections: John Maeda at TEDGlobal 2012
When he was a child, John Maeda‘s father came to a parent-teacher meeting and was told that his son was good at math and art. His fath...
The invention of the scientist: Laura Snyder at TEDGlobal 2012
A new word for a new profession Laura Snyder begins with a scene from June 24, 1833. It’s a meeting of the British Association for the...
Lucky us: Sarah Slean at TEDGlobal 2012
Sarah Slean has made eight albums, the latest of which is a double album, Land & Sea, featuring original scores composed for a 21-piece ...
Reframing: Opening animations from TEDGlobal 2012 Session 10
Brief: Radical Openness through open source motion graphics. Welcome to be re-used and remixed. Director’s statement: “Motion gr...
Reframing: Session 10 at TEDGlobal 2012
Click to view (and remix) the session-opening animation Progress comes, often, from forging ahead, striking out in a direction and discoveri...
The case for being opaque: Deyan Sudjic at TEDGlobal 2012
The director of the Design Museum in London, Deyan Sudjic arrives onstage with a confession. “Designers have a tendency to answer the ...
Entering the second age of enlightenment: Heather Brooke at TEDGlobal 2012
Heather Brooke starts her talk by telling us a fairy tale. It’s a tale of children, scolded for daring to question the authority of th...
The technological future of crime: Marc Goodman at TEDGlobal 2012
Everyone can use technology. Everyone. Marc Goodman starts, cheerily, by saying, “I study the future of crime and terrorism. And quite...
Demand a more open-source government: Beth Noveck at TEDGlobal 2012
As the US’s first Deputy CTO, Beth Noveck founded the White House Open Government Initiative, which developed administration policy on...