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Uploaded on Jun 16, 2009

http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • agentskalle

    When did Tom Hanks shave his head? He wears glasses too? :)

    Interesting talk though..

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  • beebobox

    saying that the amount of people are approaching the amount of neurons in the brain is like saying - the amount of water you drink is approaching the amount of water in the atlantic ocean.

    the number may be rising but it's nowhere close to being the same, atm the world pop is closing in on 7 billion, and the neurons in the brain are about 100 billion.

    the population will grow faster then the human brain will get bigger.

    so approaching ?

    yes

    a good comparison?

    no

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  • Contrajoe

    According to PopClocks, we passed 7 billion some time ago. We're at 7.086 billion. :|

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  • MrMitch361

    Very Interesting!

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  • Jason Morcombe

    Great talk!! What!!? No stand "o" ??

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  • CIPHERJAY

    He says 'right?' alot.

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  • BrixSnBs

    He was'nt commenting on the political idealism regarding the bill, it was about the fact that the critique was dealt with through communication rather than censorship as we saw it in China.

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  • ozzy samper

    OMG I thought the same thing :O very cool how two or more people can have the same thought xD

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  • Hidden Yarn

    I wonder how you learned about proxies and how to use them. You never would have checked the internet, by chance?

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  • wesley0a

    So Obama gave those with the same ideals as him a big "FU" and he supports that? Come on!

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  • Zaxomio

    you know you can get around the so called great fire wall of china by using a proxy. If you are the least bit internet experienced its not that great. It only stops people with less internet experience.

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