Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game

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www.ted.com Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Rives takes us on a charming tour through random (and less random) bits of human knowledge: from Chimborazo, the farthest point from the center of the Earth, to Ham the Astrochimp, the first chimpanzee in outer space.
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@webmasterdt 10 лет назад

That's my picture of Chimborazo. And my contribution to Wikipedia and the World. :)

@kapanavi 10 лет назад

Liar! David your Hollyday Fotos as meaningless, as your existence.

@webmasterdt 10 лет назад

kapanavi please look the credits at the bottom commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volc%C3%A1n_Chimborazo,_%22El_Taita_Chimborazo%22.jpg

@webmasterdt 9 лет назад

***** thanks!

@loganrolfson4857 6 лет назад

David Torres that's really cool

@webmasterdt 5 лет назад

@@loganrolfson4857 Thank you :)

@thomasdennis8067 8 лет назад

Leave Rives alone. He makes people wonder about the what ifs and is a fabulous story teller. People just have to hate something.

@jacobreinvented 12 лет назад

Great description of how the internet has revolutionized how we access information. Solid Talk.

@oppernaR 12 лет назад

Yes, yes and yes! It's always a pleasure to listen to and mostly watch Rives speak.

@Koribaby1 4 года назад

Rives is such a delightful individual. I want to say Chimborazo, but I definitely already knew that before seeing this.

@Bananasterr 12 лет назад

Finally another rive presentation! He's the whole reason I subscribed!

@snufalofargalo 12 лет назад

I have a very similar game that I play: every time you click a hyper link in Wikipedia you take a drink. Once you admit to yourself that you're suitably drunk you try to remember what your initial query was. If you can remember where you started you win the game... for that round.

@HappyPhilS 11 лет назад

Thanks. I used to visit the encyclopedia a lot when I was a kid in the 1950's. It's even more fun using today's technology with all the links to further information.

@ciaochowbella 12 лет назад

This wasn't a game at our house. This was SOP. My mother, the teacher, never told us ANY answer to ANY question. Her reply was, "Look it up." The result was that we wore out two sets of encyclopedias and now I'm an ace researcher. I might not know everything, but I can find it!

@AonGuardian 12 лет назад

His encyclopedia game reminds me of a bit called, "How you like me now," that Jimmy Fallon performs on his show where you get from one disparate subject matter to be related to his show by stating something related to the starting subject and then a related subject to that until you get to his show name. Of course, there's no end subject to try and reach in the encyclopedia game, but it sounds pretty fun!

@Red_Proton 12 лет назад

I still play that game! I remember doing it too as a kid. Except, I stop when my original curiosity is satisfied because I go off on tangents a lot. Awesome Tedtalk!

@brod2man 12 лет назад

nice to see well presented speech. i wish i had this guys level of interest, my search would go something like this Earth, tropics, FACEBOOK, League of Legends, FACEBOOK, BEDTIME

@dirtbikeboyz 12 лет назад

i knew the cue ball fact at the end. this game is so cool.

@kakisuaya 12 лет назад

I know what game I'll be playing during my study breaks this fall! :)

@melcor53 12 лет назад

Thats a pretty awesome game, I usually start off with a random page to start with instead of choosing one myself... think my record is to get from a random page to a choosed "destination" in 6 or 7 pages.

@sanketbaxi8064 11 лет назад

He's Rives. If you are watching one of this talks expecting a point, you don't know him. His talks are more about entertainment than information. Most of them include poetry. He's a pretty fun guy to watch.

@Jotto999 12 лет назад

This is actually pretty old, but I liked and faved anyway because it's good and I haven't seen it mentioned on any other channels I watch.

@BiggSteve777 12 лет назад

Greatest series of rabbit trails ever!!!

@Kombaiyashii 12 лет назад

I played this game kind of unconsciously, get to learn quite a bit of stuff very quickly.

@brendafager2699 3 года назад

He's clever, intelligent, a gifted speaker, and so interesting, that when he finishes, I wish he had just started speaking!

@mai5185 5 лет назад

I love his museum of 4 in the morning. Of course I love this too! His awesome!! Love you from Japan

@rbee1 12 лет назад

I always thought it was like following the White Rabbit down the hole. Now I know it has a name. I Chimborazo a lot. I also write with a "Frindle."

@OmegaX2Z 12 лет назад

Thanks for pointing that out.

@ElGrandeBanana 12 лет назад

In the Netherlands we do that with the city of Venlo, very fun ^^

@MultiPaulinator 12 лет назад

This guy should try this game on RU-vid where the trip gets weirder 10 times as fast. You can go from an episode by Vsauce to a woman queefing "America the Beautiful" through a kazoo in a theatre filled with 4,000 people in only three clicks.

@DarrylsB 11 лет назад

I love this! How to learn, not what to learn...

@allhailmusic 12 лет назад

he calls it chimborazo... i call it procrastination! :p

@Skeluz 12 лет назад

Exactly. People give themselves way too much credit to use an online service the way it was intended to be used. :)

@EpicBandicoot 12 лет назад

I didn't know people did this with encyclopedias before wikipedia. Cool.

@bl8bl81dc 12 лет назад

this was really good , good use of internet space lol

@DanielFrostable 12 лет назад

Yes just what I was waiting for! A new encyclopedia game that I don't have to pay for yearly, that is instead updated to the second.

@StephenDeagle 12 лет назад

What an enjoyable talk.

@agemoz 12 лет назад

Wikipedia has dedicated moderators that correct and deny editing from people who try to harm the integrity of the website. Also, anyone can edit an encyclopedia, all they need is a pen.

@ariesfairies 12 лет назад

Very unique speech topic! Loved it!

@Cronuz2 12 лет назад

superb talk

@themawnz 12 лет назад

Chimborazo , its in the description.

@tedditeddi 11 лет назад

heeeey... i get my best education from this kind of procrastination!! hehehe :D

@Serfuzz 12 лет назад

He gave a clue in his talk on how to find out ...

@piprod01 12 лет назад

I already knew a fair bit over half these facts. I thought pretty much everyone had been told at one time or another that the earth is an oblate spheroid and that if you shrank it down to billiard ball size that it'd be smoother.

@hardworker424 12 лет назад

The future is awesome as long as it's done right. There are things that we do today that is done the same way for centuries because it works. University professors will not accept wikipedia as a source because it's not verifiable. Being somewhat correct meet correct.

@PoemParade 11 лет назад

I do this a lot! I usually call this wiki-hopping. XD

@Seraphin69 12 лет назад

It's a very old game and it's called a "Wiki Walk". tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk

@webmasterdt 12 лет назад

Oh! That's my picture of Chimborazo!

@jbmohan 12 лет назад

Amazing...

@ik04 12 лет назад

Possibly one of the best TED Talks. Ever.

@23kofi 12 лет назад

best ted vid ever

@pranaytopgun047 12 лет назад

loved this vid!

@Sesarrbg 12 лет назад

Just give us more Rives.

@That1GuyWhosNumber1 12 лет назад

Sounds like intelligent "Wikipedia Golf." Love it!

@jaclynbludorn3644 6 лет назад

Favorite speaker

@Mr1994kaushal 12 лет назад

I played this game last on wikipedia ,because I was not sleepy

@tdreamgmail 12 лет назад

Amazing what passes for a TED talk these days

@bogdanyer 12 лет назад

This guy is awesome!

@TheaDragonSpirit 12 лет назад

Chimborazo I learned something new! :P

@superoriginalname 12 лет назад

This is video should have been called "internet addiction"

@energysage9774 12 лет назад

There's a popular version of that where you click random article on Wikipedia and try to get to the Adolf Hitler page in 5 clicks. 10 is easy to do, and 5 isn't so had after several practice runs when you start seeing the patterns.

@lecterthouart666 11 лет назад

i do this all the time.. but always end up at batman.

@Truthiness231 12 лет назад

Hah, just talking to my brother about that very thing; Rives isn't original, he just happened to be the first to get to TED and talk publicly about what we all were conscious we were all doing. It's just human nature to be curious, and Wikipedia's shining achievement was to give us all a way to - tangent by tangent - satiate our thirst for interesting knowledge. Who can't say that they haven't gotten trapped into a series of Wikipedia links that only end because we eventually have to sleep? ^.^

@JohnnyKidder 12 лет назад

If only "Chimborazoling" could make us money... Well I guess this guy found a way

@ako3466 4 года назад

I do this with RU-vid , that’s how I got here !!

@jakethebasher 12 лет назад

I do this every night. I didn't know it was a game...

@DJayDiamond 12 лет назад

awesome..

@Truthiness231 12 лет назад

I didn't know this was a game, this was just always the way I used wikipedia... (it's an autodidact thing)

@InnocentDoodles 9 лет назад

This is great!

@SEThatered 12 лет назад

I played this game before it was named. I ran parkour before it was named. I'm so hipster!

@valita229 12 лет назад

Brains!!!! Love it :)

@yellowklayman 12 лет назад

Reminds me of the Wikipedia Hitler game. You click random article and within 5 links find Hitler's page.

@cayterr 12 лет назад

awesome video:]

@riddler251 12 лет назад

We had the World books when I was a kid! My favoritte letter was "S". Why? because of snakes and spiders...

@porcu12345 12 лет назад

that was great

@Riomojo 12 лет назад

i learned that billiard ball fact thing from Vsauce a couple weeks ago.

@juggler820 12 лет назад

played that game already

@MrC0MPUT3R 12 лет назад

Brain is now installing updates. Please do not turn off power.

@jezzbanger 12 лет назад

EVERYTHING is a game :)

@Mileslegends5359 11 лет назад

I got from Betelgeuse to toothbrush!

@oO_ox_O 12 лет назад

O RLY? He even mentions it in the next sentence.

@takebackkean 12 лет назад

i have a more fun web encyclopedia game. my friends call it 5 clicks to Santa. we choose a word to look up any word for each other to look up. then we see how many clicks it takes us to get to Santa.

@themawnz 12 лет назад

yay another good interesting ted talk, the last few have been rubbish.

@_skytz 12 лет назад

how it's this a game? that's how i read stuff on Wikipedia...jumping randomly from link to link until i forget what i was looking for

@tix333 12 лет назад

lol i new about Chimborazo from QI

@Rasayana85 12 лет назад

I tried to confirm rule #34 for Chimborazo and failed. =P

@yosoypatrick 12 лет назад

you just won the internets

@arerayace 12 лет назад

Chimborazo... I just did it with youtube vidoes

@OmegaX2Z 12 лет назад

Encyclopedia Britannica ending its print publication? Bad and sad news. Wiki can be altered by anyone. I've heard...people mess it up for the fun of it sometimes. Which I do not like. Sometimes it's good to have an actual print right in front of you; especially one that can not be edited. By the way guys / Ted Talks... you mispelled "Encyclopaedia".