learning

Mike Wesch, a 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, talks about the future of communication and education, and describes the inspiration behind—and breakthrough success of—his wildly popular video Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us. (16:50 min)

Excellent video documenting the evolution of the Web and how it has changed the way we communicate and suggests that we need to rethink a few things like copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, governance, privacy and so on. (4:34 min)

The story of Daniel Tammet, a twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities - he sees and feels numbers, does huge calculations in his head and learns a new language in a week. (48 min, 5 segments)