What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.
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Best of TED - Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
For those of us who really hate Captcha, worth watching how this annoying feature is now improving the world. After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet
for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project,
Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the
Web quickly and accurately — all for free.
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