Sign Up Now
Watch the best videos collected by foratv.
Join 48 others following foratv's collection of 1,351 videos. It's free to sign up.
Statistics
| 1351 | Videos |
| Monthly Views |
Top Tags
-
The Next 50 Years: Will Tech Solve Humanity's Problems?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/The_Next_50_Years__Will_Tech_Solve_Humanitys_Problems Peter Biddle, Intel's General Manager of Services Platform, and Brian David Johnson, Intel's Futurist, talk about how technology can help solve some of humanity's greatest challenges including global warming. ----- Experts from Intel Corporation discuss major problems facing humanity, including global warming, an aging world population and the relentless pace of technology.Collected in foratv's videos Feb 4, 2012 -
The Future of Technology in 90 Seconds
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Future_Shock_Technology_in_the_Next_10_Years Phil McKinney, recently retired vice president and chief technology officer of the $40 billion Personal Systems Group at HP, and Brad Peters, CEO of Burst Inc., a leader in cloud-based business intelligence and analytics, talk about the value of great ideas and the emergent behavior of social media. Watch the full 52-minute program here: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Future_Shock_Technology_in_the_Next_10_Years Some ofCollected in foratv's videos Jan 29, 2012 -
Eight Mobile Trends for 2012
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/01/19/L2_Clinic_Mobile_2012_Module_1 Andy Weissman, a partner at Union Square Ventures, discusses what he sees as the biggest trends in mobile for 2012. The first phase is "mobile is dead", and he believes we're entering a phase where applications will be completely novel and cutting edge.Collected in foratv's videos Jan 26, 2012 -
The Era of Entanglement: Humanity Is 'Back to the Jungle'
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/24/World_Changing_Ideas Danny Hillis, co-chairman of the technology and design firm Applied Minds, characterizes the present day as a "post-Enlightenment" point in time in which people no longer understand the technology that surrounds them. Branding it "the Entanglement Era," Hillis compares humanity's current relationship to the technological environment to its relationship to the natural environment, such as a jungle.Collected in foratv's videos Jan 12, 2012 -
The Rise of eBooks: Are Physical Books Becoming Obsolete?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/05/What_Is_the_Future_of_the_Independent_Bookstore With the universal rise of eBooks, independent book sellers and authors are worried that changes in consumption patterns will render the physical book obsolete. Author Jonathan Ames voices this concern, noting his discomfort with how difficult it is to even find a hard copy of the newspaper today.Collected in foratv's videos Dec 23, 2011 -
Robots for Humanity
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/The_Promise_of_Robotics Steve Cousins, president and CEO of Willow Garage, expands on how robotics can benefit the disabled. Cousins explains how robots can assist with everyday tasks such as shaving and itching, as well as autonomous tasks.Collected in foratv's videos Nov 15, 2011 -
Stewart Brand: Progress with Nuclear Fusion?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/26/Energy_Finding_the_Right_Mix Stewart Brand, president and co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, describes how the National Ignition Facility has almost created a nuclear fusion reaction with net energy output that will drastically alter the energy game. ----- RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY Energy: Finding the Right Mix Serial Conversation: Bill Joy Senior Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Issam Dairanieh US Director Alternative Energy Ventures BP MontyCollected in foratv's videos Nov 10, 2011 -
Gavin Newsom: Don't Overlook Arts Education
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/partner/California_STEM_Learning_Network California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation.Collected in foratv's videos Oct 26, 2011 -
Want to Foster Innovation? Put Down Your iPad and Unplug
Want to Foster Innovation? Put Down Your iPad and Unplug Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 IBM technology evangelist David Barnes champions boredom as a critical ingredient in fostering innovation.Collected in foratv's videos Oct 10, 2011 -
Is Silicon Valley Ignoring Women?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/igniting_innovation Are tech investors ignoring women? Business columnist and UC Berkeley visiting scholar Vivek Wadhwa thinks so.Collected in foratv's videos Sep 27, 2011 -
Schoolteacher Ananth Pai Brings Video Games to the Classroom
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/gamificationsummit_nyc_2011 Businessman-turned-schoolteacher Ananth Pai shows a video highlighting his gamified approach to teaching, as well as the success he's experienced with the method in his classroom. ----- Gamifying the Classroom: An Inspirational Teacher's Story of Making Education Fun As former globetrotting business executive turned elementary school teacher, Ananth Pai has seen it all.Collected in foratv's videos Sep 26, 2011 -
The Post-Digital Age of Advertising
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/31/Will_Sansom_Selling_Great_Food_in_an_Innovative_Way Will Sansom, a writer for Contagious Magazine, discusses innovative advertising in the "post-digital" world. He describes StickyBits, an app that allows users to interact with comments left by other users of any barcode they scan.Collected in foratv's videos Aug 19, 2011 -
The World Bank's Commitment to Openness
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/nextwork_conference_2011 Shelley Leibowitz, chief information officer of the World Bank Group, explains that while the World Bank has historically been viewed as an exclusive, opaque organization, they are continuously working to be more open and cooperative. ----- Market Forces: Can Technology Bring Free Enterprise to Everyone?Collected in foratv's videos Aug 16, 2011 -
The Future of Cloud Enabled Devices
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/01/Anthony_Townsend_The_Future_of_Lightweight_Innovation Institute For The Future's Anthony Townsend demonstrates the benefits of Internet connected devices, such as sensors on a bicycle. Townsend explains how people and cities are able to gather data about the environment and use it to implement policies and decisions from a personal to a citywide level.Collected in foratv's videos Aug 16, 2011 -
Is Society on the Verge of Collapse?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/07/25/Why_Cities_Grow_Corporations_Die_and_Life_Gets_Faster Theoretical physicist Geoffrey B. West discusses the implications of a society that defines success as perpetual exponential growth.Collected in foratv's videos Aug 10, 2011 -
Google's Justin Baird Pitches Idea for 'Radically Inclusive Democracy'
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/24/Justin_Baird_Battle_of_Big_Thinking Google innovationist Justin Baird presents his proposal for global governance innovation, an idea he calls "radically inclusive democracy." Baird explains that radical inclusion can be applied to civil services, such as voting, where casting ballots online is fast, unbiased, accurate, and inexpensive. "The global community benefits from having this transparent democratic process," says Baird.Collected in foratv's videos Aug 1, 2011 -
Mobile Technology: The New Face of Conservation?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/27/Peter_Kareiva_Conservation_in_the_Real_World Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses how mobile technology and social networks can be leveraged to foster climate change awareness and inspire the next generation of conservationists. Kareiva envisions an app that would allow users to photograph, geotag and share pictures of wildlife affected by Earth's shifting climate.Collected in foratv's videos Jul 21, 2011 -
How the Written Word Transformed Humanity
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/19/James_Gleick_Bits_and_Bytes James Gleick, author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, explores the deep implications that the development of writing had on humanity. Despite opposition from great thinkers like Plato, the ability to write has made possible many things that we now take for granted.Collected in foratv's videos Jul 12, 2011 -
Why the Human Brain Can't Multitask
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, explains why the human brain struggles to process information that is presented "with the intensity and the quantity and the speed we find ourselves surrounded by today." Revising the 1956 psychology paper, "The Magical Number Seven," Carr explains that our working memory - everything comprising the consciousness at a given moment - can only hold between twCollected in foratv's videos Jun 17, 2011 -
US CTO Chopra Talks Tech, Education and Reverse Innovation
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/25/13th_Annual_Top_Ten_Tech_Trends During Churchill Club's annual Top Ten Tech Trends event, Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, predicts that Silicon Valley technology will lead the way in bringing higher education to the developing world, and that the U.S. will in turn benefit from the byproducts of trickle-up innovation.Collected in foratv's videos Jun 14, 2011
Comments
foratv Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/The_Next... Peter Biddle, Intel's General Manager of Services Platform, and Brian David Johnson, Intel's Futurist, talk about how technology can help solve some of humanity's greatest challenges including global warming. ----- Experts from Intel Corporation discuss major problems facing humanity, including global warming, an aging world population and the relentless pace of technology.
Feb 4, 2012