100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.”
Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. “Future Billions”: Notes and images from Session 4 of TEDGlobal 2011. Niall Ferguson: Most of the $195,000 billion of wealth in the world was made after around 1800 and most is owned by Westerners.
Why did wealth accrue to the West? Ferguson says: It’s not geography, it’s not national character. Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity. John Underkoffler points to the future of UI. Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds. Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb. What we learned from 5 million books. A robot that flies like a bird. Marco Tempest: Augmented reality, techno-magic. Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman. Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate.
Greatest Hits of TED Videos. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything. Derek Sivers: How to start a movement.
Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from. Wolfram Demonstrations Project. What we learned from 5 million books. Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that.