Facebook has already made an irreversible impact on society, marketing and politics — even facilitating political protests around the world in countries such as Colombia and Iran. Facebook is also changing our sense of identity: …

While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying …

An interview with Dr. Ian Bremmer, founder and president of Eurasia Group and bestselling author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (9m 46s)

Clay Shirky looks at “cognitive surplus” — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we’re busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we’re building a better, more …

Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry. Filmed at Singularity University’s Executive Program, March …

Loretta Napoleoni is first and foremost and expert on the financing of terror networks. She’s renowned as an author and journalist both in her native Italy and around the world. She regularly writes columns in …

Another China-Africa gathering has just concluded in Egypt. Beijing has promised generous loans to African nations, thus further strenghtening its already growing presence in this continent. But what is really behind this increasing role? A …

Author and Canadian icon Douglas Coupland, talks about his latest book “Generation A”, the follow-up work to his ground-breaking novel “Generation X”. He also relfects on his life and work.

A paper published in the journal Science describes a remarkable rebooting of a bacterial cell with a million-letter package of biological “software” created from scratch in a computer and then synthesized in a laboratory. This …

Science shaped itself in the founding days of learned societies: individuals or teams competed, in secret, with paper-based communication in subscription journals. Why are we all still doing science like this? The internet has had …

Andrew Hessel reasons that Synthetic Biology will be the next big IT industry. In his remarkable talk Andrew talks about the parallels between IT and biology.
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Quants are the math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who designed the financial products that almost crashed Wall Street. The credit crunch has shown how the global …

America’s greenest corporate leader and author of “Confession of a Radical Industrialist”, talks about how his company reduced its carbon footprint and urges other corporations to do the same. (26m 57s)

The first wi-fi quadricopter that can be controlled by iPhone and iPod touch. (1m 55s)

Allan Greg talks to Craig Kielburger about his new book The World Needs Your Kid, which offers tips for raising compassionate and caring children with a uniquely Canadian perspective. (27m 7s)

Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and …

BeBionic hands feature naturally compliant grip patterns combining innovative technology with life-like appearance. Functions of the hand such as speed, grip force and grip patterns may be custom programmed to suit individual …

Back for the second the at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Joe Pine II speaks about the Multiverse. He defines the universe by 3 axes: time, matter and space. But what happens if we look at the …

Are we in danger of running out of water? California’s population is growing by 600,000 people a year, but much of the state receives as much annual rainfall as Morocco. With fish populations crashing, global …

Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like …

The @Google program welcomed Bre Pettis and Zack Hoeken to Google’s New York office to talk about makerbots, making things, and being awesome. (51m 27s)

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (2m 39s)

Drivers may face limits on the carbon they emit from their cars said The Right Honourable David Miliband MP, Britain’s  Secretary of State for the Environment, at a free public lecture at the University of …

Results from the Human Genome Project are enabling scientists to understand how individual cancers form and progress. This information, when combined with newly developed drugs, can optimize the treatment of individual cancers. Joe Gray, director …

Author Malcolm Gladwell talks about his new book What the Dog Saw, a compilation of his stories appearing in The New Yorker magazine.