When will this talks will be uploaded in ted site?

Line up of speakers is pretty good and I bet every one there will have interesting stories to share but just that it could have been better wrt tomorrows technology or core Indian form of Entertainment.

I hope even if people like Avradeep who could not spare time during the broadcast would be able to see the telecast later in the evening or sometime soon. And I also hope that TED would take a step further in the process of opening up to public (via internet videos in 2001) and telecast it's conference to the common people (e.g. who do not own/ operate a computer in India) via TV broadcasting channels. It would be really wonderful.

Iam proud to be Mysorean.
Next to Dasara,this Conference brought Mysore famous in
World Map.

awesum...

yeah i was thinkin that 2 haha!!

i actually couldn't pay attention because there was a keytar in the background. What ever happened to the keytar?

Multiplayer notepad lets you have multilayered social infrastructure :]

I don't agree. I was recently texted a *hug* from somebody in the same room - just not the same.

thus multilayered I think, not drop-in replacements... :)

I know I am definitely more intimately connected than ever before.

interesting, a totally different perspective.

Victor, while that might be, these new methods of communication do let people for instance let you know how they might feel, while not beeing able to show it for any reason.. like hidden support or anything in that regard.. but then again, these new ways of communication might infringe on traditional ways of communication..

Yeah... But I still believe that human contact should be what we can do best... are we loosing this capacity or affraid of it?

Alexandra - I for one am virtually terrified of other people. Technology has helped me to meet people and build up to human contact, not hindered that ability.

I think it allows us to be more honest at times and work through things we need to discuss at a bit of a safe distance. Have you ever noticed how more honest you can be over email than face-to-face? That has facilitated real growth in a couple of my relationships that never would have happened otherwise. You are more likely to want to really hug someone when you can be more honest with them.

Wow.. a look at what lengths people are going to stay "connected" and "maintain intimacy" with those closest to them .. no matter where they are.

It used to be that when a guy went off to work, say in distant waters, or what have you, he wouldn't be able to maintain contact with his loved ones back home. With the advent of all of this tech stuff, he can feel comfortable saying things like 'loved ones' even in a public forum such as this...

I LOVE MY IPHONE!!!!

It made things hard 4 broke people because U have no excuses when u don communicate

its more of psychological than sociological issue...i really think so..

victor, I remember those.. but then again, the lonliest times in my life were while living in the city with people everywhere.. I guess theres no guidelines, in a sense the application of new technologies seems like nothing more than entropy taking place...

And opening up the channels of infidelity, criminal predation on minors, and fraud of every variety.

WHEEEEE! Lets all take a ride!

always about human behavior, and how we adapt/evolve to the new ways to communicate. Knowing myself, and that it's not easy to focus during a face to face, I have developed the behavior of reaching discretely and down and sliding my device on 'silent' Every time I'm talking to anyone in person.

This allays some of my fears that we are growing apart...

We are growing apart. We are just doing it while increasing the amount of useless communication we do. The vast majority of texting pointless: wht r u doin now? nthn wht r u doin?

I love it! There is a time and place for everything, and I don't think that these new forms of communication take away from the old - just adds something new. Virtual hugs work for me!

Henry you can have meaningless and useless communications sitting next to each other. As with all things it what YOU do with it. Maybe the above is an example of how you text or people you know. I personally do not text but I have come to form very good and meaningful relationships via the internet, with people from all over the world, and it would not have happened without the internet.

Henry, just because a message doesn't carry vital information doesn't mean it isn't important. "wht r u doin now? nthn wht r u doin?" can be a very comforting conversation between people who know each other well. Knowing that someone is thinking about you is great sometimes, so i'm happy to hear from my friends even if we have nothing important to talk about.

Good point Henry, the ART of letter writing truly is artistic, a craft, an expression of ones thoughts is lost. We need to bring it back. I am a substitute teacher is public schools and I have seen less emphasis placed on cursive writing. I think that is very sad.

We should not try to control human behaviors as we can't but we can do a little effort to make turn them beneficial for others and themselves as well.

Yup. Sure, let's encourage the kids to continue texting in a new code, they can't spell anyway. Get kisses with a ;-* and have less physical intimacy. Let's also learn to not FACE our emotions and hide behind a phone or computer because we can't face a situation. Show praise by saying LMAO. Just kill nature all together and have sext messages instead of sex. WTF? I can't believe TED aired this and I am really disappointed.

And Tracey, I do not text either, except occasionally to my wife when I am in a bad reception area and need to tell her something important. And, perhaps the internet has made it easier for you to contact people from far away, but there is a thing called being a pen pal that has existed for hundreds of years that allows people from across the globe... See More to communicate with each other and develop relationships. So that you say it would not have happened otherwise only tells me that you would not have made the effort, which is at the heart of the problem. Too few people willing to make the effort to communicate, and do so now only because it has been made easy for them. Sadly the fact that they are unwilling to make the effort only increases the volume of communication that is also devoid of effort or meaning. Too many people talking because can, and not enough talking because they need to, or actually have something to say.

That does not even touch on the detrimental effects that internet and text communication is having on any language. The lack of punctuation or proper spelling; even within this thread you can find instances of numbers or letters replacing words, no capitalization, no punctuation, people who cannot even use their spell checker (another utility trying to do their work for them) and lack of a complete idea let alone sentence. My wife is a special ed teacher at the high school level and every one of her students has a cell phone or text device. Very few of them can spell, write (physically put letters on paper legibly) or get an idea across with any clarity.

What we do not discuss and therefore take no responsibility for are the people who live a hermit like existence to avoid repeating pain that stemmed from face to face contact. If technology can relieve that horror and connect people with other people in any manner then that is a wonderful thing.

intimacy for robots perhaps...

I don't agree with this lady. 10 calls/texts per day from your loved ones (getting informed of your status) are not intimate but annoying. Social networks, cellphones - the whole non-discriminative hyper-socialization makes the people to be more superficial in communication. How often you read on Facebook a clever post, idea, joke ? most of the... See More ... Read Moretime is boring small talk - Small talk is the safest way to a small mind.

In other words, the idea presented at TED iis part of the ideological bombardment to be open, tolerant, to love and like everything - When you're taught to love/like/enjoy everyone, then what value does that place on LOVE/like/enjoyment ?

I believe it is true. Internet social networking function does edify relationships close to us. A sense of living together is hovering in the air...

Sociology vs Anthropology would be because by the very fact that those countries are developing they more closely represent people living in a more primitive world, and so tell us something about how the more developed countries may have been in their history. Or at least the part of history that is not recorded. As they are considered to represent... See More "the past" they are called Anthropology. That does not exclude them from having a Sociology as well, or from that being studied, it just means that at some point we are looking to them for clues about our past.

We live this every day, I like it, fast, on time, ready, is in present time. Not long ago you needed to wait much more time to receive news from people far away!

Interesting speech...

very nice..

Thanks! I especially enjoyed reading about your view on failure. Persistence, determination and vision wins the race!

wow fantastic architecture!!!

I love the eupohnium. It does wonderful things for the trumpet repertoire. And it is under appreciated and not really all that tuba-liike either. I think it's treble cleft.

Was it hallucination the cause behind symmetrical design in Al-Hambra? But, coevring all 7 types got to be genius.. :O

A growing trend?

I see what you did there.