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Top 10 TEDTalks of all time
- rms 18y agohttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/list http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/list has some additional sorting options
- andr 18y agoIMHO The selection is rather poor. 4 of the 10 speeches are regarding a simple technical product. While they might be cool, touchscreens and Wii remote hacks are not going to change the world, while many other talks do just that. Only 3 or 4 of the talks are actually thought-provoking, and having seen almost all talks I can think of at least 10 that were more inspiring.
- Hexstream 18y agoCan't wait to see your list!
- rms 18y agoIt's the top 10 videos by pageviews.
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- pchristensen 18y agoSeveral of those (3,8,9) are among the first videos released. People (like me) that have stumbled onto TED recently and start from the beginning will view those first. Also, the iPhone, Photosynth, and WiiMote probably come up in searches because they have Google juice.
- dreish 18y agoI discovered TED talks on the day of the iPhone keynote, searching for more info about multi-touch. So I would guess that video got a lot of its hits from other people doing that.
- petervidani 18y agoMy personal favorite comes from designer Philippe Starck: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197 Very inspiration for designers and engineers alike.
- dcurtis 18y agoYeah, his is one of my favorites too: "ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble... and that is why I design toothbrushes."
- peakok 18y agoWe often like to think we are morally superior and smarter than our ancestors, yet the success of Philippe Stark (The Caliban, as nicknamed in 2100's History books) is a clear sign of our own moronity - the moronity of our times as we should call it - and will be the subject of mockery from our grand children. The damage these people did (Starck and the architects in the same school, wich are currently overwhelming) to our cities and landscape would have been more than enough for a guillotine ride two centuries ago. If you want to figure out what we have escaped from these people, look at this nightmare : "Until recently, European architects have either connived at the evisceration of our cities or actively promoted it. Relying on the spurious rhetoric of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, they endorsed the totalitarian projects of the political elite, whose goal after the war was not to restore the cities but to clear away the “slums.” By “slums,” they meant the harmonious classical streets of affordable houses, seeded with local industries, corner shops, schools, and places of worship, that had made it possible for real communities to flourish in the center of our towns. High-rise blocks in open parkland, of the kind that Le Corbusier proposed in his plan for the demolition of Paris north of the Seine, would replace them. Meanwhile, all forms of employment and enjoyment would move elsewhere. Public buildings would be expressly modernist, with steel and concrete frames and curtain walls, but with no facades or intelligible apertures, and no perceivable relation to their neighbors. Important monuments from the past would remain, but often set in new and aesthetically annihilating contexts, such as that provided for Saint Paul’s in London." If you want to learn about a real architect, you should start by Léon Krier : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Krier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Krier He says : "“Humanity lives by trial and error, sometimes committing errors of a monumental scale. Architectural and urbanist modernism belong—like communism—to a class of errors from which there is little or nothing to learn or gain. . . . Modernism’s fundamental error, however, is to propose itself as a universal (i.e., unavoidable and necessary) phenomenon, legitimately replacing and excluding traditional solutions.”" The ugliness of US cities all has to do with the "modernist" rational approach to architecture. Unlike the europeans brains, cities were not importable. What is the point of living, sleeping and working in ugly places ? The damage done in Europe was attenuated because of our patrimoine, aka the things that our ancestors gave us, but we still have to fight against crooks like Starck. They have success, they have recognition, they have money, and they are the prominent icons of what we lack in our days of cultural relativism : taste. Full article about Krier (a must read) : http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_urb-leon_krier.html http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_urb-leon_krier.html
- alaskamiller 18y agoPicking a list is like favoring a child.
- jfornear 18y agoMy favorite is http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem... Photosynth is pretty amazing
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- swombat 18y agoTo any brain surgeons out there: The "Stroke of insight" experience can be accurately reproduced, with similar feelings of enlightenment but no brain damage, via the ingestion of psychedelic drugs.
- rms 18y agoWhich ones?
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoDMT, hard to make. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
- swombat 18y agoMagic Mushrooms will do the job nicely and are generally easily available. Make sure to read up on whatever you put in your mouth though.
- herdrick 18y ago> no brain damage Doubtful.
- rms 18y agoNo, it's really not.
- noodle 18y agoi think my favorite is theo jansen's beach creatures (and a pretty relevant one to hackers, imo). http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_c...
- mrduncan 18y agohttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everyth... - Certainly one of the most enthusiastic and entertaining talks I've seen on TED