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Jacques Vallée, one of the co-creators of the Internet, explains how the acceleration of technology in an increasingly connected society is producing "impossible futures" that range from rapid collapse of major banks to the emergence of complex new forms of political power, with the Internet as both a tool and a victim. Quotes: [The KGB] arrested people at random, and brought them to their headquarters; they had one question for them: "who do you know? who do you talk to, and what do you talk about?" If somebody wanted to do that today, they would not need to arrest people, all they need to do is look at Facebook, Twitter, Google; we give this information everyday to the network and the superstructure above the web. [nb: slightly shortened and simplified] The connected world provides many examples of "Impossible" futures that create a dissonance between existing cultures or belief systems... and the sudden emergence of new facts. The impact cannot be ignored.

Mission to keep the internet open. "We put our knowledge and experience to work along EU institutions and civil society to ensure that the principle of openness is reflected in the European Union's digital policy framework". They "work on advancing Digital Public Spaces, building Data Commons and designing the Future of Open".

Bruce Sterling is back this year. He has a remarkable ability to both celebrate dreams of the future - but also to challenge us with the problems he sees. That makes us more deeply consider what we are doing, why we are doing it - and the potential consequences of those decisions.

Très drôle !

Just as the development of a biosphere can imply new evolutionary paths for a planet, maybe the development of a planetary Noosphere has its own concrete evolutionary implications, says Adam Frank.

Brewster Kahle construit une bibliothèque numérique libre. Intervention de Brewster Kahle en TED 

Lawrence Roberts (scientist)

arry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?

John Barrett présente en anglais dans cette conférence TedX ce qu'est l'internet des objets.

Courte vidéo expliquant les enjeux de la neutralité du web.

"Vint Cerf, now the chief Internet evangelist at Google, helped lay the foundations for the internet as we know it more than 30 years ago."

A TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee a lancé un appel pour "des données brutes, maintenant" - afin que les gouvernements, les scientifiques et les institutions rendent leur données publiques sur internet. A l'université TED en 2010, il montre quelques-uns des résultats intéressants que l'on obtient en reliant les données. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development. Language : english Subtitles : french

A TEDxNYED, l'ancien "jeune républicain" Larry Lessig parle de ce que les Démocrates peuvent apprendre du parti de l'opposition, considéré comme plus conservateur. Une vision surprenante sur la culture du remix. Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: The US' broken political system Langueage : english Subtitles : french