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Last weekend, TED curator Chris Anderson sat down with CNN Money and shared a bold idea with host Ali Velshi: that ideas can make for a better future, with more pie for us all to enjoy.

“A lot of the talks are about ways of repatterning the future. We have these different words for it — design or invention or imagination or even entrepreneurship. In a way to me, those are all the same thing. That is a human being looking at the world, forming a model of it in their mind and going, ‘Wait a sec. I could repattern that and make that better,’” says Anderson. “What that’s doing is creating possibility … Ideas build on each other. They are the underlying engine that creates human progress for the long term.”

It’s a beautiful way to look at what we do at TED — spread the possibility for change.

Other thing to notice about this segment? The online title is: “Washington, this is what collaboration looks like.”

Early this morning TED’s Curator, Chris Anderson, appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about the TED Talks phenomenon, as we get close to a major milestone: one billion views.

If you weren’t awake, or don’t have access to American morning television, watch the segment right here >>

And watch for some special announcements around the one billionth view …

PS: And yes, it was odd that all the TED Talks excerpted in this segment were by, with respect, the gentlemen. After you watch the segment, may we suggest this playlist of TED Talks about science, math and engineering from women scientists and writers.

Earlier today, TED curator Chris Anderson sat down for an online Q&A with the readers of Gizmodo.com. They asked a wide variety of questions, from “What’s your favorite TEDTalk of all time?” to “What will TED look like in 10 years?” Here, some highlights pulled from the discussion.

What’s your favorite TED talk of all time?

Chris: Hard question. There are so many. But today I’ll go with this one from physicist David Deutsch. He asks a really strange question: What would a typical place in the universe look like? By the time he’s done you won’t ever think of yourself and the earth and knowledge quite the same again.

How do you pick the people to give TED talks?

Chris: Crowd wisdom, mostly. Thousands of suggestions.

What’s the fairest criticism of TED?

Chris: Ouch! Let’s see. Well… in a few recent talks, TED speakers have been accused of coming across as canned. As going for emotional impact over actual substance. In some cases, the critics have a point. The reason it happens is that the TED platform now offers a successful speaker hundreds of thousands of views … or more. So there’s huge incentive to get it right. Just occasionally, people try too hard to be smooth. Or to crack some perceived TED code. The thing is, it doesn’t work. The only great talks are those where the speaker is authentic, and reveals a new understanding of something. We’re absolutely alive to that critique and are making sure prospective speakers are too.

Do your speakers get paid?

Chris: Nope. Nothing.

Where is TED going? What will it look like in 10 years?

Chris: Damned if I know. 10 years is a long time. Anyone who claims to have a 10-year road map in a world changing this fast is fooling themselves. We think compass, not road map. And the compass is simply our mission of “ideas worth spreading.” Whatever new technologies come along that allow us to support that mission, we’ll adopt. Something we’re working on right now is how to better allow our online audience to help shape the ideas shared on the site. They shouldn’t be thought of as delivered one-time in perfect form, one to many. They should be amenable to critical thinking, adaptation, improvement. Watch this space.

Do you think there’s a grain of truth to some people’s complaints that TED talks have become a kind of intellectual masturbation for the upper class?

Chris: I get why some people might say that … but the whole trajectory of TED these past 10 years has been to make the content available free to everyone. Ten years ago, it was 800 people once a year in California. Today it’s a global audience of 1m+ people every day. Our fastest growing audience is 20-30 year olds who mostly aren’t intellectual and would *never* masturbate.

Have you ever considered TED talks given by people who are not quite as renowned and famous as most talkers?

Chris: You’re exactly right. This year we went on a 14-city tour around the world in search of unexpected talent. As a result, we have 30 pretty amazing people to bring to next year’s event.

Why do you have to be rich to attend a TED?

Chris: You don’t. There are 6 or 7 TEDx events held every day somewhere in the world, where the typical ticket price is <$100. And they’re free to everyone online. But don’t knock the folks who pay $7500 to come to our main conference in California. It’s their dollars which fund the free website and all the other TED programs (the Prize, the Fellows, TEDx, TED-Ed, Translations, etc.) Call it the Robin Hood strategy. ;)

What’s the worst thing you can ever remember a TED speaker saying? 

Chris: ”.. .and as I already mentioned five times, my book is truly brilliant… and available now.”

Read the full discussion on Gizmodo >>

Here on the TED Blog, TED Curator Chris Anderson answers the top 10 of last week’s questions in a Reddit-powered, TED community-driven Q&A.

jasontang asks: Have you had any speakers that you later regret having to some extent?

Er, yes indeed. There was the famous TV personality whose talk was so ego-full the audience actually started hissing at her. And the unforgettable case of the speaker who took just a few too many pre-talk drinks to calm the nerves. Trouble is, I can’t really name names because then people would hate me.

I guess about 25% of the talks from each conference never go up on the website. They may be solid, but just lack, for want of a better word, the “wow” factor. We want every talk online to be terrific — and one surprise benefit of doing this is that speakers are using past TED talks as the bar to beat, and putting in amazing amounts of preparation.

hot_pastrami asks: Have you given any thought to hosting debates between intellectuals with differing views? I find that a rousing debate can be a great way to combat confirmation bias.

Funny you should ask. We’re actually doing just that for the first time at TED2010 next month. Stewart Brand vs Mark Z. Jacobson over the proposition “What the world needs now is nuclear power.” Six minutes each, followed by six minutes of all hell letting loose. Then a vote. If it works, we could try to make it a regular feature.

knav asks: Has there been anyone that has not presented at TED yet who you would really like to be on?

But of course. Sticking with the living … Steve Jobs, Aung San Suu Kyi, Warren Buffet, Desmond Tutu, Meryl Streep, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, James Cameron, Mark Cuban (he accepted one year and never showed, but I still love him … kind of), Ian McEwan, David Attenborough … the list goes on.

My bet is quite a few of the above will show in the next couple years. It’s getting easier to persuade. But the funny thing is, the knockout talks usually come from the most unexpected places. So we spend more time trying to discover the less-known gems. We just met today with an utterly endearing under-the-radar artist who in 20 days’ time is going blow people’s socks off.

thedanielrecord asks: I love TED and the ideas it presents, however, $2,000 dollars (reduced-price membership) to attend the conference is still quite expensive. I understand that we are all given free video access to each speakers seminar but some truly inspiring thoughts occur between seminars amongst conference attendees. Do you think TED would benefit by reducing the cost of admissions in hopes of increasing access to these ideas worth spreading?

It’s kind of a myth to think that if we would only cut the price, everyone could show up and join in. We have an event that is sold out a year in advance, and we can’t make it much bigger than the 1,500 who come now (plus 400 in Palm Springs) because it would get too impersonal. If we cut the price (which is normally $6k), it wouldn’t allow any more people to come, it would just increase the number on the waitlist. At the same time we’d be losing the dollars that have paid for the creation of our website and allowed free distribution of the content to the world. (TED is a nonprofit — all the conference profits get recirculated to TED.com, TED Prize, and other programs. No one’s making money.)

I agree, it’s right to reserve some places for people who can’t afford the admission, and that’s why we introduced the Fellows program. Each year about 40 people get fellowships … but they’re chosen out of more than 2,000 who apply. And as you noticed, we offer a reduced rate to some nonprofits and educators.

Happily the TEDx program has spawned literally hundreds of independent TED events that charge $100 or less for admission. We think more than 50,000 people have attended one of these in the past 12 months, so that’s a lot more TED access than there’s ever been before.

More here: “Is TED elitist?“

alexbo asks: If you could have anyone in history give a talk, who would it be and what would you want them to talk about?

Frankly, alexbo, having anyone show up from a prior century, anyone at all, would be pretty spectacular.

But let’s see. Maybe Mitochondrial Eve: “My dream for the species I mothered.”

Or, more seriously, Copernicus on “The Sun, the Earth and the greatest Aha moment of all time.” Translating the talk from Latin would be a drag, though. What about Charles Darwin? “Does design need a designer?” More recently, Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan or Buckminster Fuller would have been naturals.

CreekDK asks: What was the most profound talk ever given, in your mind?

Gosh. Well … David Deutsch’s dramatic illustration of a “typical” place in the universe is a contender. So is Dan Gilbert’s synthesized happiness. And Steve Pinker’s case for the decline of violence is remarkable. But the one that has had most impact on me? I’ll go with Barry Schwartz making the case that too much choice is a bad thing. Since then, I’ve often tried to take options off the table. It works, it really does.

jasontang asks: Who is your favourite speaker or what is your favourite kind of speaker?

I love the talks that offer a new way of seeing the world. There are so many examples of this:

• Dan Dennett on memes
• Kevin Kelly on “what technology wants”
• Hans Rosling’s integrated world
• Robert Wright’s history as non-zero-sumness
• Michael Pollan’s plants’-eye view
• Deborah Gordon’s ant colonies as a metaphor for our brains
• James Howard Kunstler’s demolition of soul-less architecture
• Rory Sutherland’s recasting of advertising as saving the planet
• VS Ramachandran’s “Gandhi” neurons

… and all of the scientists showing off marvels that don’t normally cross our radar.

I also wouldn’t do without the tech demos that give you a delicious peek into the future, nor the great story-tellers who through their own vulnerability and humanity just make you feel a little more alive.

spasmdaze asks: I read that you came up with the idea for the TED Prize, that is, TED will annually grant 3 people $100,000 and “one wish to change the world.” At the moment, what would your one wish to change the world be?

Hmmm. I think I’d wish for every child to spend time at an international school. It’s certainly one of the best things that ever happened to me. All our biggest problems (pandemics, climate change, poverty, nuclear weapons) are a consequence of a world that’s now impossibly interconnected being run by people beholden to tribal interests. We maybe have about one generation to fix that.

venisoned asks: Do you have any plans to move away from the current invite-only model to a open, peer-reviewed model, where anyone with an idea worth spreading (irrespective of his/her eminence) can give a talk?

We already have something of a crowd-sourced model. The website receives literally thousands of speaker suggestions, and they’re invaluable in helping to craft the final program. I don’t think we’d ever completely outsource the process. It’s not just a random sequence of talks we put out each year … they need to connect with each other, and flow. But I DO love the thought of broadening who gets onto the stage.

One unexpected benefit of the TEDx program is that it’s allowed hundreds of people around the world to organize their own events and invite their own speakers. Some of them have stunned us … and you’re going to see some amazing talks going up on the website from TEDx before long.

Also on our to-do list is to give more visibility to the “my idea worth spreading” feature, which is already part of anyone’s profile page on TED.com. I’d like to let the community upvote these in a Reddit-like way. And yes, maybe the best ones could get talk invites. Thanks for nudging this.

MyrddinE asks: Before TED was ‘open to the world’, how did it work? I’ve never understood what business model TED operates under.

Before my foundation acquired it, TED was a boutique conference run as a for-profit business by its visionary founder Richard Saul Wurman. People paid a large fee to come to a conference in California once a year and, just through word-of-mouth, enough came for it to be a commercial success. Although I placed it inside a nonprofit foundation, the core conference has continued to grow, and is highly profitable, generating the money for all the other endeavors we’ve launched: TED Prize, TED Fellows, TEDx and most of all … the release of talks on TED.com. Remarkably, the community who come to the conference, far from resenting the fact we’re giving away the content now, have been cheering us on.

My first couple years running TED, our entire team was five people. Now we’re at about 50 and continuing to grow. It’s been exhilarating seeing so many around the world respond to these talks. 200 million have been watched online since 2006, and the pace has dramatically accelerated in the last year. (Now more than 400k are watched every day.)

Reddit has been one of the best drivers of traffic. TED-like talks never worked on TV, because it’s too easy to change channels on the first “um.” But on the back of an email recommendation from a friend, or a Reddit community front page endorsement, people will patiently listen through the first few minutes, enough time to get hooked … and lo and behold, a good talk can go viral.

So thank you to each of you. You’re all part of this.

UPDATE: Read the answers to Chris Anderson’s Top 10 AMA!

TED’s curator Chris Anderson was born in a remote village in Pakistan, and spent his early years in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in philosophy, and then trained as a journalist. He built Imagine Media, publisher of Business 2.0 magazine, and creator of the popular games website IGN.

These successes allowed Anderson to create a private nonprofit foundation, the Sapling Foundation, to find new ways of tackling global issues by leveraging media, technology, entrepreneurship, and most of all, ideas. Sapling acquired the TED Conference in 2001, and Anderson then left his businesses to focus on growing TED.

Since then, TED has expanded with initiatives such as TEDx, the Open Translation Project, the TED Prize and TEDTalks (which have been watched 200 million times since they were launched in 2006).

Submit your questions on Reddit and we’ll ask him the highest-voted ones as of noon Pacific time on Friday, January 22nd. (Note: Any questions in the comments of this blog entry will not be eligible.)

Watch his 2002 TEDTalk:

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See the results of past Ask Anythings:
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+ TED and Reddit interview Sir Ken Robinson
+ TED and Reddit interview Karen Armstrong

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Evan made a joke about pulling his phone out during his TEDTalk to check his tweets — but a provocative essay making the rounds this week suggests that presenters actually should. It’s a well-thought-out piece on how to talk while people are Twittering — and makes the case that, far from being terrifying, the Twitter backchannel is a good thing for 12 reasons. Here’s one:

As a presenter, the idea of presenting while people are talking about you is disconcerting. But to balance that, there are huge benefits to the individual members of the audience and to the overall output of a conference or meeting.

Twitter allows me to add my perspective to what is being presented and that keeps me more engaged than just sitting and listening – even if no one reads it.

The full essay appears on Pistachio Consulting‘s blog, and comes from New Zealand-based speaker coach Olivia Mitchell.

What do you think, though? One much-loved aspect of TED and TEDTalks is the luxury of contemplation — the idea of devoting your attention to one thing for 18 minutes and seeing what other thoughts and connections are stirred up. Does the Twitter backchannel enhance or destroy this? As Twitter and chat redefine the experience of watching and giving a TEDTalk, will we in the audience start to miss the experience of being physically present and absorbed in what’s happening in front of our eyes?

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We’ve transcribed Jose Antonio Abreu’s TED Prize wish to use music to transform kids’ lives and posted the full text below the fold. Here’s a snippet:

The idea is that the families join with pride and joy in the activities of the orchestras and the choirs their children belong to. The huge spiritual world that music produces in itself, which also lies within itself, ends up overcoming material poverty. From the minute a child is taught how to play an instrument, he’s no longer poor. He becomes a child in progress heading for a professional level, who’ll later become a full citizen.

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Jose Antonio Abreu’s TED Prize wish (2/1/09) transcript:

Chris Anderson: Let’s now see the extraordinary speech that we captured a couple weeks ago.

(Music)

Jose Antonio Abreu: My dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, I am overjoyed today at being awarded the TED Prize on behalf of all the distinguished music teachers, artists and educators from Venezuela who have selflessly and loyally accompanied me for 35 years in founding, growing and developing in Venezuela the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs.

Since I was a boy, in my early childhood, I always wanted to be a musician, and, thank God, I made it. From my teachers, my family and my community, I had all the necessary support to become a musician. All my life I’ve dreamed that all Venezuelan children have the same opportunity that I had. From that desire and from my heart stemmed the idea to make music a deep and global reality for my country.

From the very first rehearsal, I saw the bright future ahead. because the rehearsal meant a great challenge to me. I had received a donation of 50 music stands to be used by 100 boys in that rehearsal. When I arrived at the rehearsal, only 11 kids had shown up, and I said to myself, “Do I close the program or multiply these kids?” I decided to face the challenge, and on that same night, I promised those 11 children I’d turn our orchestra into one of the leading orchestras in the world. Two months ago, I remembered that promise I made, when a distinguished English critic published an article in the London Times, asking who could be the winner of the Orchestra World Cup. He mentioned four great world orchestras, and the fifth one was Venezuela’s Youth Symphony Orchestra. Today we can say that art in Latin America is no longer a monopoly of elites and that it has become a social right, a right for all the people.

Child: There is no difference here between classes, nor white or black, if you have money or not. Simply, if you are talented, if you have the vocation and the will to be here you get in, you share with us and make music.

JA: During the recent tour by the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela of U.S. and Europe we saw how our music moved young audiences to the bottom of their souls, how children and adolescents rushed up to the stage to receive the jackets from our musicians, how the standing ovations, sometimes 30 minutes long, seemed to last forever, and how the public, after the concert was over, went out into the street to greet our young people in triumph. This meant not only an artistic triumph, but also a profound emotional sympathy between the public of the most advanced nations of the world and the musical youth of Latin America, as seen in Venezuela, giving these audiences a message of music, vitality, energy, enthusiasm and strength.

In its essence, the orchestra and the choir are much more than artistic structures. They are examples and schools of social life, because to sing and to play together means to intimately coexist toward perfection and excellence, following a strict discipline of organization and coordination in order to seek the harmonic interdependence of voices and instruments. That’s how they build a spirit of solidarity and fraternity among them, develop their self-esteem and foster the ethical and aesthetical values related to the music in all its senses. This is why music is immensely important in the awakening of sensibility, in the forging of values and in the training of youngsters to teach other kids.

Child: After all this time here, music is life. Nothing else. Music is life.

JA: Each teenager and child in El Sistema has his own story, and they are all important and of great significance to me. Let me mention the case of Edicson Ruiz. He is a boy from a parish in Caracas who passionately attended to his double bass lessons at the San Agustin’s Junior Orchestra. With his effort, and the support of his mother, his family and his community, he became a principal member in the double bass segment of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. We have another well-known case — Gustavo Dudamel. He started as a boy member of the children’s orchestra in his hometown, Barquisimeto. There, he grew as a violinist and as a conductor. He became the conductor of Venezuela’s junior orchestras, and today conducts the world’s greatest orchestras. He is the musical director of Los Angeles Philharmonic, and is still the overall leader of Venezuela’s junior orchestras. He was the conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and he’s an unbeatable example for young musicians in Latin America and the world.

The structure of El Sistema is based on a new and flexible managing style adapted to the features of each community and region, and today attends to 300,000 children of the lower and middle class all over Venezuela. It’s a program of social rescue and deep cultural transformation designed to the whole Venezuelan society with absolutely no distinctions whatsoever, but emphasizing on the vulnerable and endangered social groups.

The effect of El Sistema is felt in three fundamental circles — in the personal/social circle, in the family circle and in the community. In the personal/social circle, the children in the orchestras and choirs develop their intellectual and emotional side. The music becomes a source for developing the dimensions of the human being, thus elevating the spirit and leading man to a full development of his personality. So, the emotional and intellectual profits are huge — the acquisition of leadership, teaching and training principles, the sense of commitment, responsibility, generosity and dedication to others, and the individual contribution to achieve great collective goals. All this leads to the development of self-esteem and confidence.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta insisted on something that always impressed me — the most miserable and tragic thing about poverty is not the lack of bread or roof, but the feeling of being no-one, the feeling of not being anyone, the lack of identification, the lack of public esteem. That’s why the child’s development in the orchestra and the choir provides him with a noble identity and makes him a role model for his family and community. It makes him a better student at school because it inspires in him a sense of responsibility, perseverance and punctuality that will greatly help him at school.

Within the family, the parents’ support is unconditional. The child becomes a role model for both his parents, and this is very important for a poor child. Once the child discovers he is important for his family, he begins to seek new ways of improving himself and hopes better for himself and his community. Also, he hopes for social and economic improvements for his own family. All this makes up a constructive and ascending social dynamic. The large majority of our children belong, as I already mentioned, to the most vulnerable strata of the Venezuelan population. That encourages them to embrace new dreams, new goals, and progress in the various opportunities that music has to offer.

Finally, in the circle of the community, the orchestras prove to be the creative spaces of culture and sources of exchange and new meanings. The spontaneity music has excludes it as a luxury item and makes it a patrimony of society. It’s what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry. It’s what makes a little girl play the clarinet at home, while her mother does the housework. The idea is that the families join with pride and joy in the activities of the orchestras and the choirs their children belong to. The huge spiritual world that music produces in itself, which also lies within itself, ends up overcoming material poverty. From the minute a child’s taught how to play an instrument, he’s no longer poor. He becomes a child in progress heading for a professional level, who’ll later become a full citizen. Needless to say that music is the number one prevention against prostitution, violence, bad habits, and everything degrading in the life of a child.

A few years ago, historian Arnold Toynbee said that the world was suffering a huge spiritual crisis. Not an economic or social crisis, but a spiritual one. I believe that to confront such a crisis, only art and religion can give proper answers to humanity, to mankind’s deepest aspirations, and to the historic demands of our times. Education being the synthesis of wisdom and knowledge, it’s the means to strive for a more perfect, more aware more noble and more just society.

With passion and enthusiasm we pay profound respects to TED for its outstanding humanism, the scope of its principles, for its open and generous promotion of young values. We hope that TED can contribute in a full and fundamental way to the building of this new era in the teaching of music, in which the social, communal, spiritual and vindicatory aims of the child and the adolescent become a beacon and a goal for a vast social mission. No longer putting society at the service of art, and much less at the services of monopolies of the elite, but instead art at the service of society, at the service of the weakest, at the service of the children, at the service of the sick, at the service of the vulnerable, and at the service of all those who cry for vindication through the spirit of their human condition and the raising up of their dignity.

(Music)

(Applause)

CA: We are going live now to Caracas. We are going live to Caracas to hear Maestro Abreu’s TED Prize wish.

JA: Here is my TED Prize wish — I wish that you help to create and document a special training program for 50 gifted young musicians passionate about their art and social justice and dedicated to bringing El Sistema to the United States and other countries. Thank you very much.

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