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How the progress bar keeps you sane

Daniel Engber · TED

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About

The progress bar makes waiting more exciting... and mitigates our fear of death. Journalist Daniel Engber explores how it came into existence.

The talk

  1. How the progress bar keeps you sane 4 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Small Thing Big Idea
Speaker
Daniel Engber
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, History, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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