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Big Data, Analytics, Data Visualization

• Big Data Analytics: Answers from Big Data - YouTube 3:06 minutes. Visual message.
• High tech and low tech - Where 10 Billion people will come from - TED Talk 13:20 minutes
• Top IT Trends 2013: Accenture Technology Vision 2013 - YouTube Playlist of eight videos. About 20 minutes total.
• Big Ideas: Why Big Data Matters - YouTube 14:32 minutes EMC. Very informative set of animations.
• Big Ideas: How Big is Big Data? - YouTube 9:07 minutes EMC
• Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop - YouTube 17:03 minutes EMC
• Big Ideas: Simplifying Cluster Architectures - YouTube 13:02 minutes EMC
• Big Ideas: Demystifying Fast Data - YouTube 24:13 minutes EMC
• Big Ideas: Simplifying High Performance Computing Architectures - YouTube 20:32 minutes EMC

Security and Privacy

• Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers - TED Talk 6:40 minutes. CEO of Mozilla on Collusion Graph
• Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS - TED Talk 15:42 minutes
• Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching - TED Talk 10:10 minutes This a world-wide issue.
• Bruce Schneier: The Security Mirage - TED Talk 21:06 minutes

Unusual uses of common Internet technologies plus spin-offs

• A Day Made of Glass 2 - YouTube by Corning 6 minutes. Cool look at the future.
  The Story Behind Corning's Vision. 11:25 minutes
• Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car? - TED Talk 13:20 minutes
• Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online - TED Talk 13:29 minutes
• Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality - TED Talk 8:05 minutes
• Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved - TED Talk 14:09 minutes

Unusual Technologies

• Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair - TED Talk 9:39 minutes
• Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair - TED Talk 11:14 minutes
• Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone - TED Talk 25:02 minutes. The director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developer of the Internet, responsible for creating and preventing strategic surprise.

Nature and environmental solutions

• Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world - TED Talk 17:42 minutes
• Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water - TED Talk 5:13 minutes

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