TED2018
The Age of Amazement
April 10-14, 2018 Pacific Time (US & Canada; GMT -07:00)
For TED2018, we'll be bringing you visibility into the key developments driving the future, from jaw-dropping AI, to glorious new forms of creativity, to courageous advocates of radical social change. We'll include critics and skeptics, but also the quiet heroes driving ideas we can rally around. And through it all, we'll seek an exciting and insightful way forward.
TED2018 | The Age of Amazement
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Session 5: Space to dream
- TED original Chromatic-Video interstitial
- Nora Atkinson0:05:38Nora Atkinson is a craft curator, a humanist and a romantic -- as she says, "I can’t believe I get to do what I do for a living."
- Vishaan Chakrabarti0:20:07Vishaan Chakrabarti's book, "A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America," argues that a more urban USA would result in a more prosperous, sustainable, joyous and socially mobile nation.
- Ian Firth0:34:14Ian Firth designs bridges all around the world; some are very long and cross over wide rivers or sea channels, and some are really short and in the middle of towns and cities, but "all of them are unique and special in their own way."
- David Cage0:51:15The creator of emotional, immersive games like "Heavy Rain," "BEYOND: Two Souls" and the new "Detroit: Become Human," David Cage uses games to push the boundaries of storytelling.
- Karen J. Meech1:08:30Karen J. Meech is an astronomer who investigates how habitable worlds form and explores the bigger picture of whether there is life elsewhere.
- Stephen Webb1:23:15Stephen Webb is a science fiction fan who's passionately interested in what the future might hold for our species.
- Will MacAskill1:39:33Will MacAskill tries to find the very best ways to improve the world -- and then tries to do those things.
- Power of Moors law video game0:49:05Video interstitial