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The rest of his channel is full of his talks https://vimeo.com/channels/761265
Not sure if it's my favorite. And the subject is more technology than "tech". But the talk that keeps haunting me is Michael Dearing's lecture from the Reid Hoffman "Blitzscaling" class at Stanford:
Heroes of Capitalism From Beyond The Grave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCdfa_aeI8
Dearing draws upon an obscure letter by Daniel McCallum, superintendant of the New York and Erie Railroad, written to his bosses in the 1850s. In the report, McCallum bemoans the stress and frustration of operating a railroad system spanning thousands of miles. All of the joy and magic he used to revel in whilst running a fifty mile stretch back in his home town has long since dissipated. Furthermore, the unit cost per mile seems to be exploding rather counter-intuitively!
Dearing goes on to elucidate the absolute necessity of the railroads ("the thing to know about the railroads is: they were startups once") themselves. As guarantors of civilization and progress. Beacons bringing light and reason to the dark swamps of ignorance and inhumanity. And not just in the physical transport of goods, people and ideas across the continent. But as the wealth created from that creative destruction remains the best cure for all of our other inimical maladies: poverty, injustice, disease and stagnation.
So, no pressure. But civilization depends upon you!
Links to References in the Talk:
Estimates of World GDP: From One Million BC to the Present
http://delong.typepad.com/print/20061012_LRWGDP.pdf
The Process of Creative Destruction by Joseph Schumpeter
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CreativeDestruction.html
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674940529
Report of D. C. McCallum to the stockholders of the New York and Erie Railroad
https://books.google.com/books?id=4Gc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33#v=one...
Things As They Are In America by William Chambers
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...
By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose. https://vimeo.com/36579366
Thanks for posting this, very much appreciated. Are there any tools available which allow you to live code in such a way? I did a quick search and found this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448215/tools-to-support-... It seems quite out of date though.
I see a couple of Bret Victor videos here, but the one I loved the most was "The Future of Programming": https://vimeo.com/71278954 Really set me on a path of re-examining older ideas (and research papers), for applications that are much more contemporary. Absolute stunner of a talk (and the whole 70's gag was really great). "What would be really sad is if in 40 years we were still writing code in procedures in text…
"The Last Lecture", by Randy Pausch. While it's by a well-known CS professor (who was dying of cancer at the time), it's not a technical talk, but about life and work, and how to make the most of it. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Another fantastic one is Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
The talks are awesome. I still downvoted this, because I consider it off topic. Sorry.
Black Hat USA 2015 - The Memory Sinkhole Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuIGLz01hE