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TEDGlobal 2011 | The Stuff of Life

TEDU Session 1

  • Csaba Manyai
    0:00:01
    Csaba Manyai, founder, Vis Mentis, and organizer, TEDxDanubia, shares the vision of the Urania Scientific Theater, 1899
  • Melissa Waggener Zorkin
    0:04:24
    Melissa Waggener Zorkin, CEO, Waggener Edstrom, talks about storytelling.
  • Raghava KK
    0:09:45
    Raghava KK wants to shake up the children's book.
  • Chris Ruffle
    0:14:52
    Chris Ruffle tells the story of building a Scottish castle in China.
  • Maarten Lens-FitzGerald
    0:22:05
    Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder of Layar, says augmented reality will unlock the physical world.
  • Adam Ostrow
    0:27:04
    Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief, Mashable, discusses our digital presence after we die.
  • Chris Meyer
    0:34:55
    Chris Meyer, founder of Monitor Talent, shares 3 big ideas for the future of capitalism.
  • Alex Steffen
    0:43:19
    Alex Steffen, author and futurist, shares the newest developments in green.
  • Alexander Petroff
    0:54:42
    Alexander Petroff, TED Senior Fellow, farms in the Congo.
  • Bert Govig
    0:59:11
    Bert Govig, physician, asks, "Will the next generation be thinner?"
  • Frances Wilson
    1:05:43
    Frances Wilson lays out three major problems facing hospitals in challenged areas of Africa.
  • Audience Q & A
    1:13:54
    Host June Cohen asks the audience: What's a trend we should be looking at right now?
  • Somi
    1:24:00
    Somi, TEDGlobal Fellow, sings mellow soul-jazz inflected by Africa.
  • Thomas Dolby
    1:33:16
    Thomas Dolby demos his new game, "The Floating World."
  • Valeria Polyakova
    1:40:30
    Valeria Polyakova tells stories of laughter from hospital corridors.
  • Jennie Lees
    1:44:12
    Jennie Lees leads an exercise in improv.

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