We’re going to be building on the Moon this decade — and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she...
What if you could create new music using your favorite musician’s voice? Sharing her melodic gifts with the world, multidisciplinary artist Holly Herndon introduces Holly+, an...
With quick wit and sharp insight, writer Jeanette Winterson lays out a vision of the future where human and machine intelligence meld — forming what she...
Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating...
The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Subscribe on YouTube: Historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari has a story about the...
From the return of nomadic living to a climate-disrupted world, author and global strategist Parag Khanna has some predictions for humanity. Get a fascinating glimpse at...
Could DAOs, or “decentralized autonomous organizations”, be the key to building the next great city? Experimental urbanist Scott Fitsimones shares how these mission-driven, blockchain-governed, collectively owned...
Over the last decade, humanitarian organizations have digitized many of their systems, from registering refugees with biometric IDs to transporting cargo via drones. This has helped...
“The world is a living tapestry … As the weave of life is torn apart in one place, the threads unravel in another,” says author and...
SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new — and supersized — way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks...