About
Join Phil Tetlow on a mind-bending journey to understand how we organize endless data into relevant information. Our minds, he says, use tools like pattern-matching and simplifying to make sense of the world around us. He explores the concept of network theory, detailing how vast amounts of information tend to be delivered through relatively small central hubs. (Example: think about everything on the internet filtered through sites like Google and Facebook). Tetlow suggests, understanding the nature of information and how it connects, might give us a clue as to the nature of life, the universe and why we're even here at all.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED@IBM
- Speaker
- Phil Tetlow
- Year
- 2017
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- 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.
- Who can watch
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