Posts Tagged TED

Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Christian Drehkopf

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs (“Pro-Ams,” as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.
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Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Christian Drehkopf

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he’s made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or [...]

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John Maeda: “Laws of Simplicity”

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Christian Drehkopf

The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for [...]

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