Six of the best of tech video talks at TED.com

After getting all excited a couple of days ago about an excellent video talk about data visualisation posted over at TED.com, I thought I’d revisit the site for purposes of seeking out other useful and inspiring video talks related to web, business, and technology.

For those new to TED, we have an earlier blog post here, dedicated entirely to this excellent online video resource for ideas and innovation.

So, basically here’s a little compilation of some of my best of tech video talks covering various aspects of tech and business:

1. Mike Matas: A next generation digital book: A short demonstration of how digital books might look in the near future, encompassing everything from video embedding (in the same way that print media might feature mere image ’embedding’) right through to interactive graphical data and new ways to browse books at various levels such as whole chapters, individual pages and so on using touchscreen technologies such as pinch or slide sensors.
2. David Horowitz calls for a ‘moral operating system’: An interesting consideration of Ancient Greek and Enlightenment period philosophical concepts to modern questions regarding the way we create and apply new technological innovation and the power that comes with it.
3. Chris Anderson: How web video inspires innovation: A fascinating model of how innovation is borne from organisations/groups – and exactly how web video is changing the dynamics of both the organisational/group ecosystem, and what it means for the innovation that comes out of it. Anderson’s discussion of such crowd accelerated innovation is relevant for everything from his organisation’s future (he works for TED) right through to the potential use of web video in corporate organisations seeking to maximise innovation and creativity.
4. Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world: This talk posits the upcoming decade for the world of tech and web as being one in which building the social aspect of web gives way to the building of its game layer. In other words, Priebatsch posits that the job of constructing networks online is pretty much done – the next job is that of working out how to use social networks to influence behaviour; something for which he reckons game theory is highly relevant.
5. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb: Harald Haas looks at a potential new solution to the increasingly heavy data demands of the modern web technologies and tech environment – the use of the (relatively large) light spectrum for purposes of data transmission, with the aid of a slightly modified light bulb device.
6. Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses and defending the net: Hypponen, a computing security expert, looks at the current and future security challenges faced by the web in the terms of defending against viruses and the increasingly complex risks that they pose, 25 years after the first ever computer virus was discovered in 1986.

And that’s just a small selection best tech video talks of the 900+ currently available over at TED – enjoy exploring further!