Internet Free Audio & Video

The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. He makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.

Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the dot-com start-up phenomenon and its eventual end. The film follows e-commerce website govWorks and its founders Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman from 1999-2000 as the Internet bubble was bursting.

1.8 billion Facebook users; 1 billion Tinder swipes each day. We're interacting at breakneck speed through social media but, without face-to-face contact, are we really communicating?

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki.

The symposium discussed the presidential election through the prism of the declining influence of fact-based reporting and the ascent of social media and consumer-driven digital discourse.

The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson…

Thanks to social media, teens are able to directly interact with their culture -- celebrities, movies, brands -- in ways never before possible.

Technology commentator Nicholas Carr explores the psychological impact of the Internet and his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

Today's websites are increasingly dynamic. Pages are no longer static HTML files but instead generated by scripts and database calls. User interfaces are more seamless, with technologies like Ajax replacing traditional page reloads.

Media and technology writer William Powers discusses his new book, Hamlet′s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age.