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Saturday, February 13, 2010
James Cameron: Curiosity — it’s the most powerful thing you own. John Kasaona: We realized that stopping poaching is completely different from catching poachers. Glenna Fraumeni, talking from TEDActive in Palm Springs. Read this. Adora Svitak: We kids still dream about perfection. Our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of reality. Sir Ken Robinson: […]
Benoit Mandelbrot: Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules repeated without end. Magnus Lindkvist: We are afraid to say “I don’t know.” George Whitesides: A stone is simple. But you can build cathedrals of stones. Alan Siegel: We need to build humanity into our paperwork. Philip K. Howard: The law must be simple enough that people […]
The Creativity Lab by Steelcase was a hub of brainstorming, collaboration, intense discussion and even a little hardware hacking throughout TEDActive. Here’s an inside look at what the space had to offer. At the PUR Water station. TEDx event buttons in high production — collect ‘em all! An interview in progress at AT&T’s HD Video […]
In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 8:14) Watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo of augmented mapping on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other […]
Throughout TEDActive, TEDsters had a chance to participate in something truly magical: the making of a music video (UPDATE: watch the video!). To help out, the musicians and producers with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus stopped in Palm Springs for all four days of the conference. The Bus, a nonprofit mobile recording studio, travels […]