TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
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What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think — even calling out the boss is fair game….
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The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake. It’s as if we know more but understand less, says philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch. In this talk, he dares us to take active steps to burst our filter bubbles (our own perspective) and participate…
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Serial entrepreneur, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Elon Musk, discusses a few of his revolutionary vision(s) for the future. Some of which include his new plans (executed by The Boring Company) for digging tunnels under LA which would tremendously decrease traveling time; the latest from Tesla…
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Futurist Ari Wallach helps leaders more consciously and ethically shape tomorrow. In this futuristically-inclined TED talk, he prompts us to move beyond making decisions based on short-term goals and gains — an approach that makes the future more uncertain and less safe. In doing so, we are urged to instead ask the question: How can we…
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Assistant professor and founding director of the Media Innovation program, Jeff Howe, and early-stage investor in technology companies including Twitter, Flickr and Kickstarter, Joichi “Joi” in a combined effort for TED, contends that the best way to prepare for a future of unknown complexity might be to build on the strength of our differences. This is to…
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In this technologically oriented TED talk, digital visionary Kevin Kelly compares technology to the actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley – which is unpredictable, but of which the general direction is inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound…
