# Daniel Engber: How the progress bar keeps you sane

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

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/DanielEngber_2018V)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/DanielEngber_2018V?play=1)