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Cassetteboy - The Web for Beginners

Cassetteboy - The Web for Beginners

A remix video featuring several of the folks who we’ve seen in our class this semester explaining the World Wide Internets as part of a …

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab …

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a …

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Video from the Internet Archive’s Open Mind series Transcript of his talk here at EFF [...] I do not know very much more about computer technology …

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

In True Enough, Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief …

You are not your brain - Alva Noe at Google

You are not your brain - Alva Noe at Google

A counterpoint to Dunbar and to Small? Or just another way of looking at your brain? (pj) Alva Noe visits Google’s San Francisco, CA office to …

What Makes Us Human - Robin Dunbar

What Makes Us Human - Robin Dunbar

If the embedded video doesn’t work (still working on that), use this link. Robin Dunbar 22 Oct 2008; Science Oxford. Humans are very closely related to the other …

iBrain - Gary Small

iBrain - Gary Small

Gary Small visits Google’s Kirkland, WA office to discuss his book “iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.” This event took place on …