The last video discusses how being able to watch videos like this is improving the way we spread ideas. All TED talks are cc licence, and you can share them with whoever you want.
Technologies' Epic Story (16.5min) 2009:
- why technology is important to us.
- why culture is important for spreading technology.
- the advantages of technology
- the disadvantages of technology
- how technology is an essential part of our lives.
- ways to respond to it
how technology evolves (20min) 2006:
- how technology grows and changes over time.
- how even old technology still exists, they don't die out like living creaures.
- "you can delay technology, but you can't kill it".
- the prequel to the previous talk.
when ideas have sex (16.5min) 2010:
- how human beings bring together their brains to allow ideas to combine, recombine, and "mate".
- "you've never seen a dog do a fair bone exchange with a dog".
- why chimps have technology, but it doesn't expand like ours.
- why specialization in technology is a gain if we trade.
- a basis for momentum behind technoly change.
A Darwinian theory of beauty (15.5min) 2010:
- how art and beauty are a driving force behind technological change.
- stunningly beautiful to watch in itself.
where good ideas come from (18min) 2010:
- coffee houses in england, and how they encouraged development and spread of ideas.
- "the enlightenment".
- the idea that there are some technologies that spur technologies.
how web video powers global innovation (19min) 2010:
- culmination of the previous topics.
- the new coffee houses.
- the new schools.
- why technology, and ideas are sky rocketing.