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TED Radio Hour

Open Source World

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.421.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: October 23, 2015. The era of open source has led to countless innovations. When does it work and when is it chaos? In this episode, TED speakers explore how open source is changing how we build, collaborate and govern.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Guy here, so the era of open-source technology has led to countless innovations

0:05.2

in programming and design and robotics.

0:08.3

It's changed how we build, collaborate, even govern.

0:11.9

But when does open-source work to its fullest potential?

0:14.7

And when does it cause chaos?

0:17.4

This episode is called Open Source World, and it originally aired in October of 2015.

0:23.7

This is the Ted Radio Hour.

0:29.7

This week, groundbreaking TED Talks.

0:32.4

Ted. Ted. Ted. Technology.

0:34.4

Entertainment. Design. Design.

0:36.4

Is that really what's 10 for us?

0:37.6

I've never known the delivered at TED conferences around the world.

0:40.8

It's the gift of the human imagination.

0:42.2

We've had to believe in impossible things.

0:45.0

The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.

0:49.3

Those talks, those ideas, adapted for radio.

0:55.2

From NPR.

0:59.7

I'm Guy Ross.

1:01.2

So here's a story.

1:02.4

It starts in 1989.

1:04.5

And it's about how the internet, as we know it, almost didn't exist.

1:09.6

You didn't have really the words anyway.

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