Like the message and the way it’s done. Nothing hi-tech. Just a man in a street using his voice and reason the let people hear his thoughts.
This video registration (done by friends of the speaker) was being tweeted in the early morning by @rvhooijdonk and I was “sold”. I wasn’t the only one. Lot’s of people retweeted that video in the dutch twittersphere. And so his voice reaches not only the people at the mall that day but an additional 150.000. The power of video + good message + internet = OK!

• speaker on video: Cvietch (see more)
• link to the video on Youtube: Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
• montage posted on 26th of September 2009 by: Back Burner News

The talk by Jonathan Zittrain show us that internet (only) works on random acts of kindness.
I’ve been active on the net from 2000 and that was one of the things that struck me almost immediately. I first had the impression that because the medium was still young it had to do with the front-runners and that it will die out when the masses will come. They are here now and there are loads of examples telling that my fear will not become true.
When internet stays by the people and for the people, we as a people will do what morally is right. And internet will become what we all dream it can be. If not, “it’s just 45 minutes away from disaster” as Jonathan puts it speaking about Wikipedia.
The examples that Jonathan Zittrain shows us are just a few but they speak out very lively. Enjoy

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• speaker: Jonathan Zittrain
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• filmed in July 2009 posted on September 2009

“By 2010 computers will disappear. The will be so small the will be embedded in our clothing. Images will go directly to our brain creating full emergence in virtual reality…. If you go to 2029 we will have 2-25th power beter price performance capacity…. it will be millions of times more powerfull then it is today…. a $1000 of computer will be far more powerful than the human brain in term of raw capacity… we are going to merge with these technologies… it will be a great expansion of our intelligence… growth is exponential not linear.”
Progress is inevitable. So these predictions by Ray Kurzweil just blow my mind because if you only look at the growth curve, he must be right.
 
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• talk held on February 2005

I crave for TED speeches and I have to constrain myself not to repost them all (what’s the use of that!). But the passion of Hans for stats is unresistable and to make it even worse he shows us a web based tool that gives easy and accessible data in a few clicks. The Trendalyzer software is now acquired by google. Could be a good thing, we’ll see.

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speaker Hans Rosling
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posted June 26, 2007

had a promising start and a very good conclusion. But I was hoping on some good advise / answer on his question how to think deterministic in realation to ideas. He touched it just a bit.

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speaker Dan Debbett
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posted Juli, 2007

After seeing the aging talk by Aubrey de Grey this just convinces me we are on our way to find less barbaric ways of repairing ourselfs. Now let stop being barbaric all together.

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speaker: Alan Russel
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posted Juli 5, 2007

Saw it before and always when the subject of aging arises I tell them about this speech I saw. I tend to “believe” he can engineer it.

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speaker: Aubrey de Grey
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posted October, 2006

For some time now (15 years) I discovered the compassion within me and until today I’m acting on it (within my personal limitations). When people ask me why I do things I tell them I want to make them happy and then I will be too. Most of them can’t understand it.
Bob:
“To feel the feelings of others = compassion.”
“If you stop focusing on yourself and focus on making others happy you get happier.”
“The key to compassion and generosity is that it is more fun.”

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speaker Bob Thurman
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posted June, 2007
filmed December, 2006

This is me:


Although I despise and can’t understand he concept of war it’s been here through history, the present and will be here in the future. To see this was quite shocking.
Thomas Barnett has a down to earth logic approach from within the current system of war to guarantee(?) peace and a new beginning.
The powers that be should listen and act upon it. This talk was in 2005 and I guess he was already preacing way before that. We are now 2007. Nothing is resonating that his proposed change is eminent. Maybe the upcoming president of the USA will be able to make it happen.
At hate what I just written down. War = humanity failing. Let’s focus on the positive again and move on.

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speaker Thomas P.M. Barnett
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posted June, 2007
filmed February, 2005

He really touched me with his sincerity he displaying for more than 20 years now.

James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a photojournalist. A slideshow of his photos, beginning in 1981 in Northern Ireland, reveals two parallel themes in his work. First, as he says: “The frontlines of contemporary wars are right where people live.” Street violence, famine, disease: he has photographed all these modern WMDs. Second, when a photo catches the world’s attention, it can truly drive action and change.

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speaker James Nachtwey
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posted April 4, 2007