TED 2017 Embraces Robots, Personal Flight, Political Questions — in Vancouver.
Rabbi Lord Sacks speaking to TED in Vancouver began by quoting Thomas Paine — “These are the times that try men’s souls, and they’re trying…
Rabbi Lord Sacks speaking to TED in Vancouver began by quoting Thomas Paine — “These are the times that try men’s souls, and they’re trying ours now.”
“Is there something we can do, each of us, to be able to face the future without fear?” asks Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
When artist Titus Kaphar was in college, he took one of those art-history survey classes that attempt to cover everything from cave painting to modernism in a single semester. But when his textbook contained exactly 14 pages on the history of people of color in art — Titus raised the issue with the professor. On the day of that lesson, the professor said: Sorry, we don’t have time to cover it. And that changed his life.
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert walk the robot dog SpotMini on stage at TED 2017. In a session named Our robotic overlords,
“The whole journey was about trying and failing, and learning from that,” he said inventor Richard Browning. He flew in a circle and hovered a short distance from the ground in front of a large crowd at TED 2017.
The bright red Copenhagen Wheel was released by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lab in 2009. Now the company Superpedestrian — is shipping the remarkable peddle power enhancer.
“We set ourselves an ambitious goal: integrating with a rider’s body in a way that makes you feel naturally stronger. It took over three years of engineering, but I can finally say we made that dream a reality.” said Assaf Biderman, founder and CEO of Superpedestrian.