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[Live Forever]

There were some news stories about Bill Gates releasing a jar of mosquitoes into the crowd at a recent TED talk:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29022220/
http://news.yahoo.co...lthfinancegates


Here is the vid of that event:
http://www.ted.com/i..._unplugged.html

[lucid]

Joe DeRisi talks about how to diagnose diseases using DNA:
http://www.ted.com/i...ller_virus.html


Barry Schuler's very easy to understand overview of genomics (good to show to someone who knows little about science):
http://www.ted.com/i...nomics_101.html

The best part for us life extentionists is the last few seconds of the video where Schuler says, "Stay healthy for 20 years; If you can stay healthy for 20 years, then you'll see 150, maybe 300...".

Joe DeRisi's Talk was really great. I didnt care as much for barry's.

Woody Norris gives a great talk on some mind blowing inventions he came up with.
http://www.ted.com/i...ing_things.html

[Shannon Vyff]

Ok, Ok--not a TED talk, but the Creation Science 101 song is really funny (and I'm in the front row with my daughter Avalyse, got my Darwin Day T-Shirt on it was my church service yesterday...Avalyse is the red headed kid at the back during story time, the sermon itself is by a long time KLRU host http://www.klru.org/..._site/about.php and chief executive of the Austin Area Interreligous Ministries http://www.aaimaustin.org/index.html Rev. Tom Spencer; his sermon "Hope in Fearful Times" is worth listening to, its starts at 35 minutes in)

So anyway, I was looking for a place to share it, and it is as good a few within this thread , it is nice to see how larger political/financial woes affect a local community:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1159481

[Forever21]

Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis, by Juan Enriquez

Edit by Live Forever: Embedding video.

Edited by Live Forever, 19 February 2009 - 06:38 AM.

[Live Forever]

Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis, by Juan Enriquez

That is an excellent one; I watched it last night and was just about to post it when I saw you had already posted it. Everyone should definitely watch that one.


In addition, I found the "short" (about 7 minutes) TED Talk about siftables (tiny computers) by David Merrill kind of interesting (not as much as the one Forever21 posted, but still interesting):

Edited by Live Forever, 20 February 2009 - 08:04 AM.

[Shannon Vyff]

Good TED talk Forever21, I'm going to show it to my Future Studies class it incorporates many things I've been teaching them. Homo Evolutis, are we losing transhumanism then as a term? http://abcnews.go.co...h...4658&page=1

[Forever21]

To quote Magneto (a mutant) on homo sapiens

"We are the future, Charles, not them."

Edited by Forever21, 19 February 2009 - 08:10 PM.

[lucid]

Not really related to life extension, but:
http://www.ted.com/i...t_his_face.html
How brad was created and aged digitally.

Edit by Live Forever: Embedding video

Edited by Live Forever, 26 February 2009 - 01:17 AM.

[Live Forever]

Not really related to life extension, but:
http://www.ted.com/i...t_his_face.html
How brad was created and aged digitally.

Wow, that was excellent. I watched Benjamin Button (and really enjoyed it) but I had not realized how much time and effort had gone into the computer generation. (or how many breakthroughs had to be accomplished just to do it)

[Live Forever]

Patty Mae demos the "Sixth Sense" wearable computing projection device:
http://www.ted.com/i...ixth_sense.html

Edited by Live Forever, 14 March 2009 - 02:51 AM.

[synaesthetic]

http://blog.ted.com/..._sense_demo.php

This looks awesome and its not a far off idea, it's already working!

[valkyrie_ice]

Patty Mae demos the "Sixth Sense" wearable computing projection device:
http://www.ted.com/i...ixth_sense.html

http://blog.ted.com/..._sense_demo.php

This looks awesome and its not a far off idea, it's already working!

Brief summary for those of you who want a idea of what the link goes to.

The 6th sense device is a prototype of the reality overlay interface. It has a camera, a small projection screen that can display on any surface in front of you, and is tied into a cellphone/pda/iphone device. It can identify objects, track the placements of your fingers via color coded finger caps (at present) and display additional data etc. It is designed to use natural gestures for interfacing.

Once this becomes further developed, you are are likely to see the device incorporating video contact lenses http://news.national...bionic-eye.html

It is when the displays are capable of being combined with the contacts that extremely sophisticated interactions will be likely, because once the images are no longer dependent on being projected onto a real surface, virtual holograms are likely to become the default interface. Fortunately all the major components for the system are being developed so we may see this on the market within a few years.

Edited by Live Forever, 15 March 2009 - 03:01 AM.

[Athanasios]

Check out this item TEDTalks : Why play is vital -- no matter your age - Stuart Brown (2008) - http://feedproxy.goo...93nuBTMIFIU/483

Also, Aimee's talk on her interchangable legs and other people's view of her really bodes well for transhumanists. It reminds me of how quick pop culture picked up bluetooth headsets.

[Live Forever]

Also, Aimee's talk on her interchangable legs and other people's view of her really bodes well for transhumanists. It reminds me of how quick pop culture picked up bluetooth headsets.

Yes, I had seen Aimee's talk from 1998 about her running legs and running at the Paralympic Games, which made her recent talk that much more incredible.

[Live Forever]

Ted Berners-Lee on the next web of open, linked data. (and how much more useful it can be than what we do now)

http://www.ted.com/i...e_next_web.html

[Live Forever]

Adam Savage (from the show, Mythbusters) on his obsessions.

http://www.ted.com/i...obsessions.html


(Really, just a good overview of geek obsession in general, haha.)

[lucid]

Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.

http://www.ted.com/i...ommunicate.html

[lucid]

David Keith: A surprising idea for "solving" climate change

Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

http://www.ted.com/i...ate_change.html

[JLL]

I can tell you without watching the video that if it's cheap and effective, shit is going to hit the fan at Gore's mansion.

[Athanasios]

A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars - Shai Agassi (2009) - http://feedproxy.goo...84wmHGBzpbo/512

[Mind]

TEDMED 2009 announced

TEDMED speakers include inventor Dean Kamen ("can a prosthesis be better than the real thing?"), pioneering genomic scientist Craig Venter on what we can do with synthetic life, White House special advisor Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. on reforming healthcare in America, magician David Blaine on the science of holding his breath (for a world record 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds), eProteus CEO Andrew Thompson on a computer chip made from food ingredients in smart pills, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine director Anthony Atala, M.D. on growing bladders and other new organs, and David Sinclair on drugs to treat age-associated diseases.

Created by Marc Hodosh and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, TEDMED will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. Registration is first come, first served, limited to 400 seats.

[Lazarus Long]

When I first saw your post I thought you were referring to this article I read earlier today:
Thinkers meet to plot the future

Leading thinkers in technology, design and science are gathering in Oxford to share their ideas about the future.

TED Global (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is the European cousin of an already established top US event.

The invitation-only conferences are dedicated to "ideas worth spreading" and have seen talks by former US presidents and Nobel Laureates.

This year's event will explore questions in neuroscience, astrophysics and economics.

"It is about all the hidden, invisible, not yet discovered or fully explored parts of our lives, society and the world," said Bruno Giussani, European director of TED.

***
This year's conference runs from 21 to 24 July in Oxford, UK.

Ted Med sounds very interesting too.

[31stCentury]

Does anyone know when the videos are going to go up? I can't wait...

[Mind]

Nice popular media review of TedMed.

The very real possibility of near-term radical human life extension can no longer be ignored.

Medical advancements that sound like science fiction -- growing your own organs, being cared for by robotic nurses, popping anti-aging pills -- are either at or near reality already. No matter what is decided about how we deliver and pay for health care in the future, the manner in which bodies and diseases are treated is about to change dramatically.

At least that's the opinion of the innovators in medicine and technology -- scientists, doctors, engineers and philosophers -- who gathered last month at a TEDMED, (that's Technology, Entertainment, Design Medicine) conference in San Diego to unveil solutions to some stubborn health care problems. These innovations are likely to be embraced not only because they could save money, but also because a large, vocal group is going to want them -- the baby boomers.

[brokenportal]

I like how that meme is growing. Organ growing and general work to push the limits of longevity, (that arent comprehensive enough) help a lot. On a scale of relatedness, it seems they are about a 5 where as things like memeing to the supplements crowd may be around a 3.

I notice however we still have to keep these things out of our direct mission statement too. In the La Repubblica interview for instance, Ricardo seems to think that we are a bunch of dreamers who want to "freeze the dead men and stuff fresh organs in, in pursuit of immortality", which isnt the case at all, at least not for me.

Im after stopping the cellular damages that kill us, similar damages of which have already been worked with successfully, in pursuit of indefinite life extension. Those things are good though, or course, and I could be wrong.

Speaking of TED talks, ComradeF and I were chatting about this interesting TED talk last night. Its another good video for gaining insight in to how to get the word out and inform people. It goes over congnitive dissonance for example, which is the concept that people cant hold two conflicting views at the same time. So a part of this is also in weakening a view they may have that is opposing. Theres a lot of other great points surrounding this concept too.

[JLL]

Wow, I hated that talk.

[Moonbeam]

(Bookmarking so I can find later.)

[Elus]

[MindSparks]

Extremely promising for us. :D