Category: Technology
David Autor - American economist Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash, the number of …
Iyad Rahwan - Australian-Syrian scientist Today I'm going to talk about technology and society. The Department of Transport estimated that last year 35,000 people died from traffic crashes in the …
Tricia Wang - Technology ethnographer In ancient Greece, when anyone from slaves to soldiers, poets and politicians, needed to make a big decision on life's most important questions, like, "Should …
Albert Wenger - Managing Parter at Union Square Ventures All of our economic theory, all of our business practice, all of our public policy, they were all developed during an …
Muneeb Ali - Co-founder of Blockstack Today I'm going to tell you about how I fell in love with the internet. And how I realize that the internet is fundamentally …
Ben Wellington - Data scientist Six thousand miles of road, 600 miles of subway track, 400 miles of bike lanes, and a half a mile of tram track, if …
Tom Uglow - Designer I'd like to start by asking you all to go to your happy place, please. Yes, your happy place, I know you've got one even if …
"We're declaring war against cancer, and we will win this war by 2015." This is what the US Congress and the National Cancer Institute declared just a few years …
So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address in 1982. Actually, it's deceptively large. There's actually only about 20 …
In August of 2014, my wife Becca decided she was going to quit her job and open a boutique. Her idea was to combine a clothing store and a …