PickVidsBest Futurism & technology and society Videos
The 116 Futurism & technology and society videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 4 intermediate, 110 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Isaac Arthur.
What kids really do on Musical.ly
A commentary video by YouTuber PaymoneyWubby reacting to children's content on the Musical.ly app, which became TikTok.
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
A five-minute C-SPAN clip of Dr.
The Most Persistent Myth
Veritasium argues that every new technology, from motion pictures to TV, was predicted to revolutionize education and none did.
Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy
A Louis C.K.
Google’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video)
Leaked internal Google X video, 'The Selfish Ledger', a speculative thought experiment about treating user data as a ledger that could guide and shape human behavior, including products sold to fill data gaps.
AT&T - 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign
A look at AT&T's 1993 You Will ad campaign, which showed technologies such as video calls and telemedicine that were then under development.
Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION
A Vanity Fair Summit conversation between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Star Trek Economy
A short Star Trek: The Next Generation clip about how money no longer exists in the 24th century.
Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
A short Supernova 2007 provocation in which Clay Shirky uses a 1300-year-old Japanese shrine, rebuilt periodically, as a metaphor for how networks change business and collective creativity.
Steve Jobs on the Post PC era
A short clip of Steve Jobs at the D8 conference discussing the post-PC era, including his analogy of PCs as trucks that will remain for a minority of users.
Decentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive
Full-day livestream of the 2016 Decentralized Web Summit at the Internet Archive, with speakers including Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Brewster Kahle, Cory Doctorow and Mitchell Baker.
Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future
Mark Fisher's 2014 talk in Zagreb on the slow cancellation of the future, about cultural stagnation and the sense that popular culture has stopped producing the new.
David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
David Deutsch's TED talk arguing that humanity's survival depends on solving problems through knowledge growth.
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
A VPRO documentary in which Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff explains her book on surveillance capitalism.
The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker's TED talk charts the long decline of violence from biblical times to today, arguing that despite Iraq and Darfur we may be living in the most peaceful era of our species.
Everything's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy
A short clip of Louis C.K.'s Conan interview riff 'Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy', about how people take modern technology for granted and complain about marvels.
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator concept video, made for John Sculley's EDUCOM keynote, showing a professor conversing with a tablet-based AI assistant.
IBM Flying Cars Commercial
A 2000 IBM commercial in which Avery Brooks complains that we still have no flying cars.
How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google
Ray Kurzweil presents his book How to Create a Mind at Google, on reverse engineering the brain and using that understanding to build intelligent machines.
Nanofactory Animation
A short animation illustrating the proposed nanofactory concept, where nanomachines assemble atomically precise parts into larger products.