TEDxSantaCruz: Roger McNamee - Disruption and Engagement

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live Mooncast (video) concerts, the Couch Tour. Moonalice's single, "It's 4:20 Somewhere" has been downloaded more than 845,000 times.

Roger is the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words. Roger serves on board of directors of Wordnik and Move. In philanthropy, he serves on the boards of directors of National Geographic Ventures, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Museum, and the Rex Foundation. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

This TEDxSantaCruz talk is part of over 2 dozen surrounding our theme of "Engage!" This inaugural TEDxSantaCruz event was held June 11, 2011 at the Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall in Aptos, CA (Santa Cruz County). http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/

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[WandererOfWorlds90]

15 minutes of a guy kissing Steve Jobs's ass. I thought ted talks were intellectually interesting. It seems quality has slipped a bit in some talks.

[BassDrivenMassacre]

This guy is retarded.

[Niels Lagerweij]

Well since Apple is only dominant in the USA I have to disagree with his vision on google

[Lindax]

it's got nothing to do with loving or hating apple or windows. the guy nailed it in 2011 if you look at what's going on in 2013.

[mahamrd]

and html 5, css, and javascript, reign in domain

[mahamrd]

SAMSUNG GALAXY with ANDROID, and all diferent models with ANDROID, are going to kill APPLE 4, APPLE 5, APPLE 6, ETC

[Holiday Chock]

I agree, creativity is on its way back.

[ShadowEater7]

So Facebook is an operating system that interfaces with a wide range of hardware configurations? Facebook is not the new windows, get your facts right man, not to mention social networking can be monitored with a flick of a switch. I agree with tablets and internet enabled phones taking over desktops, but not developer side. You can still create far more content with a desktop than is imaginable with a smart device, its important to remember everyone still has access to that.

[IamNixjust]

He'll stick his foot in his mouth when Google Glass comes out.

[tobor68]

A year and a half on and it's more like prescient.

[Mitchell Moody]

He said that he has no stock in Apple. So no.

[kalasnikoch]

He licks apples ass and smiles while doing it :P