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Culture

In these lectures, you’ll learn about the culture of technology, and how technology affects culture.

Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures: Find out how literary criticism and cultural history have accommodated and embraced contemporary media from this lecture. [MIT]
Privacy Under Pressure: Privacy Under Pressure explores the stream of recorded data created in everyday lives. [Oxford]
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society: Find out how computers and technology can engage kids to design, create and invent from this lecture. [MIT]
The Future of e-Learning: See Andrew Pinder’s vision of the future of e-learning in this lecture. [Oxford]
iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Steve Wozniak shares how he invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun. [MIT]
Cyberpunk Counterculture: This lecture examines the counterculture of cyberpunks. [UC Berkeley]
Social Media or the Impact of Us: Check out this lecture that talks about the impact of social media and social networks. [Oxford]
Time, Technology and Social Structure: Look at production and consumption activities in technology in this lecture. [Oxford]

Information

These lectures deal with information technology.

Books and Libraries in the Digital Age: Robert Darnton discusses the ocean of digital information. [MIT]
Information Visualization: Here you’ll learn about the details of information visualization. [UBC]
Dawn of the Information Economy: Check out this lecture to learn about the information economy. [UC Berkeley]
Zen and the Art of Information Security: Ira Winkler takes a simple philosophy to information prediction. [Oxford]

Business

Get an understanding of the technology business from these lectures.

Building the Next Generation Company: Innovation, Talent, Excellence: John Chambers offers a lecture on succeeding as a technology company during a crisis. [MIT]
Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google: Marissa Mayer lectures on fostering creative ideas and innovation. [Stanford]
Tough Choices: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina offers insight into the business of technology. [MIT]
How Silicon Valley is Made: Get a look into the innovation and growth of high tech from Christophe Lecuyer. [University of California]
The World is Flat 3.0: Tom Freidman discusses how the new global order puts entrepreneurial individuals in charge. [MIT]

The Internet

These lectures offer an analysis of the Internet.

Why the Internet is the way it is: Find out what made the Internet the way it is, and how it will change in the future. [Oxford]
Internet Security: Legend or Myth?: Listen to John Levine’s lecture to learn about a variety of issues in Internet security. [Oxford]
Internet and Information Literacy: Find out how the Internet influences information literacy from this lecture. [UC Berkeley]
Cyber-Humour: This talk detects and defines the new forms and topics of cyber humor. [Oxford]
The Intelligence of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales offers an explanation on Wikipedia in this lecture. [Oxford]
Internet Governance and Regulation: Listen to this lecture about the future of the Internet and how to avoid it. [Oxford]
The Semantic Web: Tim Berners-Lee lectures on the origins and future of the Internet. [MIT]
Who will run the Internet?: Find out who will operate the Internet from David Isenberg. [Oxford]

Machines, Invention & Creation

Discover creations in robots, bombs, and more from these lectures.

Human Beings and the Machines of Sunshine: Find out why the best machines today are made of sunshine. [Rice]
Personal Robots: This lecture explores robots as devices that function in society. [MIT]
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons: Joseph Cirincione’s lecture takes a look at nuclear arms races. [MIT]
Building Very Small Mobile Micro-Robots: Bruce Donald lectures on his micro-robots. [MIT]
Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics: These lecturers debate whether machines may someday achieve consciousness. [MIT]
Extending the Human Being via Robotics: This lecture will teach you how robotics research will extend human capabilities. [Rice]
Advancements in Underwater Vehicles: See how underwater vehicles respond to current environmental issues. [MIT]

Computers

View these lectures about computer technology.

Media Arts and Computing: Learn about computing and media arts from Chris Csikszentmihalyi’s lecture. [Columbia]
Software Breakthroughs: Bill Gates shares how we can solve the toughest problems in computer science. [MIT]
Computer Science: This lecture offers an introduction to computer science. [UCLA]
Giving Computers Common Sense: Learn about interfaces with common sense from Pushpinder Singh. [MIT]

Open Source

Use these lectures to learn all about open source.

Open Science and Scientific Publishing: Find out how scientists and educational institutions are pushing back against old paradigms in this lecture. [MIT]
How to Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit: Jon Ipolito explains how to hack copyright in this lecture. [Columbia]
Copyrights and Copywrongs: Siva Vaidhyanathan’s lecture focuses on copyright. [Columbia]
Illegal but Legitimate: Professor Noam Chomsky’s lecture discusses what can be illegal and legitimate at the same time. [Edinburgh]
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence: These speakers explore how collectives can make things work. [MIT]
Economics of Open Source: Learn about the economic implications of open source from this lecture. [UC Berkeley]
Second-Generation Open Access: This lecture from John Wilbanks focuses on building open content. [Oxford]
An Introduction to Open Source: Learn the basics of open source from this lecture. [UC Berkeley]

Future

View these lectures to get a look into technology’s future.

Virtual Reality: Past, Present, and Future: Get a look at augmented reality from this lecture. [MIT]
Information Technology, Enterprise Transformation, and the Future of US Higher Education: See how higher education in the US will change over the next 25 years by watching this lecture. [Oxford]
The City Car: These lecturers propose a City Car to address space and environmental concerns with cars. [MIT]
The Future of Science and Technology in Europe: Jose Mariano Gago lectures on the EU’s plans for science and technology. [MIT]
The Brain of the Future: Susan Greenfield’s lecture explains the future of technology and biology. [University of Nottingham]
The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee lectures on the development of web technology in the future. [Oxford]