To understand even something as important to us as happiness, you kind of have to branch off in all these different directions, and there's nowhere that I've discovered other than TED where you can ask that many questions in that many different directions.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

It is responsible for an important part of the electromagnetic radiation that reaches the Earth.

Because in the last four years we've seen all kinds of memes, all kinds of trends get born right on our front page.

But not a big for instance, in zebras, they have a huge ear that's very mobile, so they can actually turn them both around.

This is one in my neighborhood. And they are much better better than traffic lights, better than four way stop signs.

So, these are the different perspectives of that interior, which has a very complex set of orientations all in a simple form.

And we basically capture enough information with video projector patterns that drape over the contours of her face, and different principle directions of light from the light stage, to figure out both the coarse scale and the fine scale detail of her face.

If current trends continue, global annual water usage is set to increase by more than two trillion cubic metres by 2030, rising to 6.9 trillion cubic metres.

I then went on wondering whether I could actually replace her image, so I got a look alike of Diana and posed her in the right positions and angles and created something that was in, or existed in, the public imagination.

If you go over the education spending and the health care spending particularly these long term trends you don't have that type of involvement on a number that's more important in terms of equity, in terms of learning.

And so the general, long term trends of evolution are roughly these five ubiquity, diversity, specialization, complexity and socialization. Now, I took that and said, OK, what are the long term trends in technology?

The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era where governments themselves have less power and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, he explores how these trends could be turned into smarter policy.

And that's pretty new, and I think it's probably going to get a lot worse this capacity because of trends in information technology, in technologies that can be used for purposes of munitions like biotechnology and nanotechnology.

So you have things like resemblance, where something which resembles the physical world can be abstracted in a couple of different directions abstracted from resemblance, but still retaining the complete meaning, or abstracted away from both resemblance and meaning towards the picture plan.

And so the way I saw this in my mind at first, was that the pieces would explode up and out with infinite speed, and the pieces would move far out, and then they would begin to be pulled back with a kind of a gravitational feel, to the point where they would approach infinite speed back to the center.