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In this page I will like to discuss various issues and feature videos, which throw light on the relationship between cognivity, culture and business, especially in regard to understand what the relationship is between learning processes, the internet and socio-economic dynamics and how it is shaped and conditioned by culture. 

Tom Peters, an expert on management practices discusses “educate for a creative society.”

The British Primer, Gordon Brown gives a speech to top business men, where he discusses how to nurture the talent of the British people. December 6, 2007.

Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century with Vint Cerf. A speech given in Zürich, Switzerland, November 22, 2007.

Lawerence Lessig discusses the future of the Web in Tokyo, November 11, 2006.

Lawerence Lessig, the author of "Free Culture" discusses the relationship between culture and politics during a visit to Google's New York office, October 3, 2006. 

Mitchel Resnick, professor of learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory discusses the topic "Sowing the Seeds for a more creative society," Google Tech Talk, October 26, 2006.

Bruce Schatz is the director of the Community Architectures for Network Information System (CANIS) laboratory at the University of Illinois discusses the topic "Toward Telesophy: Federating All the World's Knowledge," including explaning the concept of the "hive-mind." Google Tech talks, July 11, 2007.

Heidegger Speaks. Part 1 (English subtitled). 

Martin Heidegger, "In Denken Unterwegs."

Martin Heidegger, fragments of his socio-cultural environment.

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellungen." Part 1.

Culture Chain: Internet Phenomena. Episode 1: Ellen Feiss.

Richard Dawkins (author of "the Selfish Gene") on the strangeness of science: TED talks, Oxford University, July 2005.  

Richard Dawkins on BBC profile, part 1.

Richard Dawkins on BBC profile, part 2.

Richard Dawkins on BBC profile, part 3.

Richard Dawkins is interviewed in BBC's hardtalk part 1. Summer 2007.

Richard Dawkins is interviewed in BBC's hardtalk part 2. Summer 2007.

Richard Dawkins is interviewed in BBC's hardtalk part 3. Summer 2007.

Richard Dawkins is interviewed about this book "The God delusion" at Alan Clomes at Fox radio, summer 2007. 

Fritjof Capra, the author of "The Turning Point" and "The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living" discusses the systems view of life, especially the concept of "living systems," 2007.

Dan Dennett on Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of meme, summer 2007.

Nobel price winner, biologist, E.O. Wilson, the author of "Sociobiology" discusses the structure of nature, TED talks, 2007.

Charles Rose interview the two world-famous biologist James Watson and E.O. Wilson about the legacy of Charles Darwin and the concept of evolution, December 14, 2005.

Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist, who is professor of Psychology at Harvard Univeristy discusses his latest book, "The Stuff of Thought" at Google's headquarter in California, September 24, 2007.

Vilayanur Ramachandran, "A journey to the center of your Mind." TED talks, 2007.

Nick Spitzer, a professor of Biological Science at the University of California at San Diego gives a lecture on the topic: "Building the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity." 2007.

Mark Gluck, Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University, who works in the intermediating zone between psychology, neuroscience and computer science discusses the principle by which we learn and how we build up pattern of categorization. Google's Tech talks, November 15, 2007.

Legendary designer Philippe Starck discusses the question "Why Design." TEDtalk, 2007.

Education specialist Ken Robinson, the author of "Our Minds: Learning to be Creative," dicusses creativity and education under the title: "Does schools today kill creativity," TEDtalks, during a conference, CA, February 2006.

Janine Benyus gives a talk about "12 sustainable design ideas from nature," TED talk, May 2007.

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda who works at the intersection and art discusses his new book "Laws of Simplicity," TED talks, 2007.

Deborah Gordon discuss the topic: How do ants know what to do? Summer 2007.

Historian of science, Michael Shermer, a columist for Scientific America and founder of the Skeptics Society discusses science, culture and religion at the Amazing meeting 2006.

Inventor and futurist, Ray Kurzwell, discusses the exponential evolution of technology during a conference at Monterey, California, February 2005.

An interview with Ervin Laszlo discusses General system-theory.

David Lynch gives a lecture on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain." University of California, Berkley, November 6, 2005.

Jeff Hawkins, the author of "On Intelligence," discusses the theme,"Why we don't have a good brain-theory", TED talks, February 2003.

A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism.

Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute interviews Nobel-winning economist, Milton Friedman on the topic of Libertarianism (part 1), February 10, 1999.

Ayn Rand interview by Phil Donahue. Part 3 of 5.

Nanotechnology takes off. KQED report, 2007.

Interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Spring 2007. Part 1.

Interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Spring 2007. Part 2.

Technology Pioneer 2008: Jonathan Rothberg is a Co-founder and Chairman of RainDance Tech discusses the question what it is that makes an innovator. Would Economic Forum, November 2007. 

Technology Pioneer 2008: Jon Brodd is founder and Chief Executive Officer for Cima Nanotech discusses innovation. Would Economic Forum, November 2007. 

Technology Pioneer 2008: Donald McCaffrey, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Resverlogix, a medical firm placed in Canada, discusses the factors necessary to make a good innovator. World Economic Forum, November 2007.