There are so many good ones and here are some of my favorites:
1. Crowd Accelerated Inovation
Chris Anderson
What better way to start off a best of ted videos list then with a video about how awesome vdeo is?? Here, the leader of www.ted.com shares his insights into why video is such a powerful and transformative medium.
2. World Wide Web of Ritual and Belief
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is one of my all time heros; a wild adventurer, a brilliant anthropologist and a tremendously compassionate writer. Here he gives a dazzling perspective on the interwoven fabric of human consciousness as he traces the stitches of his own footsteps around the globe.
3. How Algorithms Shape Our World
Kevin Slain
This is a deeply provoking exploration of how our physical and cultural landscapes are increasingly being determined by algorithmic intelligence in the service of capital. The way that he connects the nodes of this emerging network is startling and strangely elegant. A special guy for sure.
4. How Architechture Helped Music Evolve
David Byrne
Wow. David Byrne is so cool. And here he goes into the relationship between architechture and music. There is a field of study in Anthropology called Proxemics that looks at the relationship between people and space; particularly how certain kinds of space encourage certain kinds of relationship and movement among people and how people will creat certain kinds of spaces to facilitate certain kinds of relationship and movement. The key here to me in what David Byrne is saying is that architecture and music emerge along with culture as part of the fabric of consciousness present at that time.
5. A Call for Open Source Architecture Around the World
Cameron Sinclair
Speaking of architecture, I watch this video every time I want to remember how many people are out the re pouring their creativity into developing innovative, intelligent and beautiful ways of addressing world issues. Not only that, but I completely share his values and emphasis on the importane of making everything open source. The last few minutes of this video is a whirlwind tour of some of the coolest housing solutions that were around back in 2006. I'm sure everything has only exponentially progressed since then!
6. Gratitude
Louis Schwartzberg
This is another beautifual and inspiring video about vieo. And flowers.
7. Gaming Can Make A Better World
Jane McGonigal
If you lined all the hours that people have played World of Warcraft back to back, you would have about the same ammount of time as it took humans to evolve out of single-cell organisms. Jane McGonigal says that this is good news. That people are naturally gravitating towards coming together to go on epic quests and achieve massively challenging goals. All that we need is to be directed towards games worth playing. And aren't we at a point in world history where we need to ban together to face a massive challenge in the most epic quest ever?!?
8. I am a Mathematician, May I Stand On Your Roof?
Ron Englash
This one is a must-watch. He looks at how African cultures used fractals as an organizing principle in areas as diverse as structuring their villiages to educating kids through games to using fractal algorithms for spiritual divination.
9. Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World
Paul Stamets
Now we are in hero territory for sure! Paul Stamets, an avid ambassador from the fungal filum sharing some of the wonderous ways that mushrooms want to help us transfor the world to a more symbiotic, reciprocal, life sustaining network of relationships.
Amber Case
My home girl and fellow Cyborg Anthropologist delivering the news that we exist in undeniable relationship with technology and have the responsability to lucidly understand ourselves as such. Hell yes Amber Case!
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