There is as much accountability around screwing up as there is around inventory management in a traditional outfit; that is, the innovator takes responsibility for the screw-up and for insuring rapid learning and dissemination of lessons learned and for mounting the follow-up experiment posthaste.

A brilliant presentation on the future of media. It is not so much about whether or not you agree with the future as presented by the makers, but the presentation of their concept, their idea of the all-powerful experience economy (dominated by a select few, or single ‘player), is incredibly powerful and viral.

Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn’t expect, as he shares evolution’s counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things (plus a new theory from Matthew Hurley on why jokes are funny).

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules.

A very powerful video on how we perceive and prepare for the future now. Technology, society and humanity adapting to major events yet to unfold.

“The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010, did not exist in 2004. We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.