2011-03-29 13:50:23 // Deirdre Robert
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One language dies every 14 days. Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? That’s the question posed by longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan in this TED presentation.
2010-06-29 17:23:00 // Design Daily Team
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Marian Bantjes makes an interesting case for designing with a more personal touch in this TED talk.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2010-02-15 08:31:52 // James Hurman
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Today we heard from Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, David Rockwell, Natalie Merchant, David Byrne and Chris Anderson (the Wired one, not the TED one), yet despite such an auspicious roster, the ‘wow’ moment today came from a humbler corner.
2010-02-12 16:03:54 // James Hurman
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My ‘wow’ moment of today was the discovery of an American barista who knows how to make a flat white. The ‘wow’ moment for everybody else was ex Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold.
2010-02-11 18:29:16 // James Hurman
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It’s bloody difficult to choose a standout from the 18 speakers and performers we experienced at the first day of TED’s 2010 event, themed ‘What the world needs now’. But here’s the biggest collective ‘wow’ and the quote of the day.
2010-01-27 12:49:27 // Matt Cooney
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It’s one thing knowing where the nearest pizza joint is ... but when augmented reality has becomes the norm, it’s going to get intense. Witness this concept video, complete with mode switches, Basic Life Skills tuition and even computer-assisted encouragement for those whose self-image needs some augmentation too.
2009-09-11 10:02:11 // Matt Suddain
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It’s 30 years since the release of the Sony Walkman. Matt Suddain tracks the evolution of portable music—and the complaints of those who wish it would go away.
2009-08-16 17:23:44 // David MacGregor
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Legendary designer David Carson engages with spontaneity, wit and insight at Semi-Permanent. Well … wit and insight …
2009-06-20 14:01:37 // Jason Kemp
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Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs.
This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy consumers have already engaged to some extent in a myriad of ways (mostly online) and this alters the secondary ripples and impacts as well.
2007-06-21 13:49:10 // Jason Kemp
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A key challenge for policy makers is how to tell a compelling story with numbers. It is not easy to visualise the impact of change in a meaningful way—but help is now at hand.
Ironically it doesn’t come from the business intelligence (oxymoron alert) community—it is more the result of being able to add graphical tools and creative vision to the core data. The person driving this vision is Dr Hans Rosling a global health professor. Google like the approach so much that they have now invested in the gapminder software developed by Rosling
