Manu Prakash is on a mission to bring radical new technology to global health. Perhaps you’ve punched out a paper doll or folded an origami swan? TED Fellow Manu Prakash and his team have cr... Read more
Green-glowing lamps created by French biochemist emit light while they consume carbon dioxide. These supernatural-looking tubes are the brainchild of French biochemist Pierre Calleja, whose... Read more
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It’s a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientis... Read more
But I wondered, what if there could be no boundary at all? Throughout the history of computers we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap betwee... Read more
Just imagine buying some flat-pack furniture, bringing it home and enjoying a coffee whilst you watch it assemble itself Molecular self-assembly, whereby molecules position themselves into d... Read more
A project to revive long-gone species is a sideshow to the real extinction crisis “We will get woolly mammoths back.” So vowed environmentalist Stewart Brand at the TED conference in Long Be... Read more
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson — it’s simply the growing p... Read more
M.I.T. economist Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology has affected economic growth and productivity, and how human workers can adapt Fifteen years ago Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in a... Read more
The big idea is to create objects that can change after they are printed, making them self-adapting. There are 3D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3... Read more
Boy wonder Jack Andraka is creating a dream team of young scientists to work on creating a Star Trek–like handheld device that can diagnose disease just by scanning your skin. The $10 millio... Read more
A transparent computer that allows users to reach inside and touch digital content has been unveiled at the TED conference in Los Angeles. TED fellow Jinha Lee has been working on the SpaceT... Read more
The world needs clean water The world needs clean water, and more and more, we’re pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty bri... Read more
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last? via TED.com Read more
Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk is the leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Formerly he was Autodesks chief opera... Read more
New videography techniques have opened up the oceans microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys tea... Read more