8 TED talks that will inspire you.

1. Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming

Technology makes a lot possible. A lot of things that we used to dream of are now possible. It's nice that we have these possibilities now, but the reality removed our dreams. This talk gives just one example, of how technology could re-enable 'dreaming'.

2. Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral

Many videos have gone viral: Benton, Nyan cat and numa uma, to name just a few. But when you concider that there is 24 hours of video uploaded to youtube, you have to come to the realization that it's a very small percentages of those videos that go viral. What makes a viral video?

3. Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage

Maybe not as inspiring, but interesting at least.

4. Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond

Not a new idea, but an important one, showing the importance of the sibling bond. I find many statements from this video to be true in my own family: My older brother does have a higher IQ than I do, but I, especially as a child, had a bigger inclination to be creative with language and wit, but most importantly, when I have a problem, when I need help, my sibings are the first people I'll go to, because I know that I can trust them, and they can trust me.

5. Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism

Advancements in technology can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian actions. This talk shows how technology improved help after the earthquake in Haiti, and many more examples. I hope this talk ispires people to set up more of these tools. It is important that people in as many parts of the world as possible, get more tech savvy, as data that can help humanitarian organizations, can most easily be gathered, shared and visualized, by local people.

6. Paul Lewis: Crowdsourcing the news

This talk shows how anyone can help bring the truth to the daylight, when journalists start crowdsourcing journalism.

7. Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

The internet is become more and more personalized. Sites attempt to algorithmically determine what we want to see. There's such a big stream of information coming at us, that these sites try to filter it for us, prioritize it for us. But that also means that we don't see the stuff that gets filtered out. And this can get dangerous.

8. Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

A nice look into the possible future of the web. I only see one flaw in this talk. When Kevin talks about the growth of the eb, he doesn't concier limits. Moore's law will not be applicable for an infinite ammount of time. As soon as we're at the atomic scale for transistors, it might take us longer than 2 years to double the ammount of computing power, unless we don't follow his model of going back to centralized computing, and embrace the model of decentralized computing even more. Instead of everyone's devices being just a portal, the devices could be actively participating cogs in the machine, helping the computation. Idle machine cycles could be used for computations for others. A massive computing grid. But this talk is just mindblowing, and makes you think of the future of the internet and the web in a very broad way.