The TED Prize has a brand-new homepage, where you can read all about our 2008 winners, and find out ways to start helping their wishes come true.
Look here for wishes from Dave Eggers, Neil Turok, and Karen Armstrong.
Take a look and start granting these wishes big enough to change the world >>
Announcing: The new City 2.0 website launches today. Share your stories.In the next 30 years, two-thirds of our planet’s population will live in cities. Have you ever tried to envision the cities of the future? Cities are enlivened by people, and people enable change. So today, we are launching our redesigned website TheCity2.org, a gathering place for all urban denizens to share stories, videos, ideas […]
De-extinction to save a species: Stewart Brand at TED2013Last time we saw Stewart Brand on the TED stage was in 2010, in his debate with Mark Z. Jacobson over whether the world needs nuclear energy. Brand, perhaps surprisingly, gave a passionate pro argument. But today he’s here for a very different — and potentially very controversial — purpose. Extinction is not just death, […]
Inger Gregory commented on Feb 28 2008
Thank you for the live webcast of TED 2008. I appreciate being able to participate in these presentations. As a Baha’i, I enjoyed Karen Armstrong’s talk on Religion and the thread that connects all through the Golden Rule. Perhaps the concept of religion evolves according to the needs of the age with progressive Spiritual Teachers, not competing but continuously advancing. The concept of Progressive Revelation is an idea worth investigating. I wish she would have acknowledged the Teachings of Buddha, Krishna, and Baha’u'llah. Thank you Karen for spreading the idea of common ground. Our era desperately needs unity and justice. I support your efforts.