Web is life. Television is furniture.

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some lessons and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."

A Young Rebel

Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank-Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work.