Jul 13
Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum, The Churchill Club, is back on FORA.tv. On July 18, 2011, at 7:15 pm (PDT), FORA.tv will present American talent agent Ari Emanuel and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner LIVE and on demand. Best know as the inspiration behind Jermey Piven’s cut-throat super-agent character Ari Gold on HBO’s …
Jul 01
True to form, the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival kicked off with some big ideas on big problems. “We are here to talk about the state of the American political system and its ability to produce solutions,” said Ron Brownstein, political director at the Atlantic Media Company and moderator of the Aspen Ideas Festival’s June 28 …
Jun 29
This Week’s Big Question: When we buy green products, we aren’t doing much for the environment, says philosopher Slavoj Zizek. We run around obsessively recycling and biking and buying organic food because we believe we are doing something meaningful. But we are still consuming. We have good intentions but no real impact. Not quite, says former …
Jun 24
Economic struggles, drug wars, youthful optimism and great ideas: It’s all happening next week at the world’s best conferences. June 28 to July 3 – The Aspen Ideas Festival Endearingly called a “Burning Man for intellectuals,” the Aspen Ideas Festival is just what the name implies: a celebration of the world’s foremost ideas, presented by some …
Jun 22
This week’s Big Question: If advances in science and health care enable humans to live 150 years, will civilization improve? No, says Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson. Human nature will not change. Dark forces will still reign. Or will they? Futurist Peter Schwartz says intergenerational learning is taking place. Ninety-year-old grandmothers are teaching their grandchildren …
Jun 21
One part Wired, one part Economist, with a celebrated Late Night host and a social media maven as marquee attractions, the Wired NExTWORK Conference kicks off tomorrow, June 22. Addressing “the promise and peril of the network’s future,” the one-day event is “not a technology conference in the traditional sense,” say organizers. And we can’t …
Jun 20
What a long year it’s been. Twelve months ago, just as the Aspen Ideas Festival was kicking off, the economy was still souring and the country was responding to an oil spill of almost-biblical proportions (and very real complications). The world’s great thinkers gathered in Aspen and discussed immediate solutions to pressing problems. Sobering questions …
Jun 17
Recovery or recession, delay or decline, success or stagnation? Amid a protracted economic downturn, a highly partisan political atmosphere and record-high unemployment levels, it’s still unclear how the history books will look back on this period in America’s culture and economy. That doesn’t mean, however, that the world’s top thinkers don’t have plenty of opinions …
Jun 15
FORA.tv strives to connect smart, passionate audiences to brilliant ideas that are expressed everyday. Each week, our newsletter features a provocative and compelling Big Question, inviting discourse and debate from our community. This week’s Big Question: Will the Information Revolution Save Humanity or Destroy It? Our cutting-edge tech tools are overloading our minds, stopping us from …
Mar 02
FORA.tv pays homage to TED, one of the world’s pre-eminent big idea conferences: http://fora.tv/series/TED2011_Homage With TED2011 underway February 28 – March 4, we salute 27 current and past TED presenters. This FORA.tv series features talks by these world-class speakers from other events and conferences. Under the ‘MORE’ tab of each FORA.tv video program, you’ll find a link …
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