Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

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This week on TED.com July 12, 2014

Talk of the week Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist" 12:31 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted Jul 2014 · TED2014 “Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” The head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission. This kind of bottom-up, do-it-now innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today. Don’t be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist. Watch now »

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More from TED.com Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against Muslim fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for crime, attacks and murder. These personal stories humanize one of the most overlooked human-rights struggles in the world. Watch » We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively. Watch » MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the past 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then, but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years. Watch » David Kwong is a magician who makes crossword puzzles -- in other words, a pretty nerdy guy. And for his next trick ... Watch » Plus: Read what Will Shortz has to say about the link between crosswords and magic »

exploring ideas every day On ideas.ted.com: The art -- and science -- of sharing a secret. Drones that play cat's-cradle. And Joi Ito's 8 tips for thriving in a world of constant change. Plus: The night Karima Bennoune said, "your fatwa does not apply here."

Quote of the Week “ [The flush toilet is] a wonderful waste disposal device. But I think that it's so good — it doesn't smell, we can put it in our house, we can lock it behind a door — and I think we've locked it out of conversation too." Rose George Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.

Join the Conversation   Meet Januario Jose, the first TEDx organizer in Angola »   "I took a year off, inspired by a TED Talk" »   “ Tim Shutler on Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"   The distinction between learning and education is a great one. So is having a purpose, rather than a concrete plan. As the speaker points out he wasn't educated to deal with the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, but he kept learning and his team developed something which worked. Inspiring stuff."

how this talk came to be Simon Sinek became a TEDx star overnight -- but his new fame left him wondering who to trust. Learn how this experience led to write his new TED Talk »

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