I live in Philly and work at TED HQ in New York, leading the editorial team that writes words about TED Talks and the ideas in them. Check out ideas.ted.com because it is amazing and fun to read. Previously: Wired, MacWEEK, the SF Bay Guardian, magazines.
TED spoke with Nicholas Negroponte in the days after the Haiti earthquake (and the day after the iPad was announced). OLPC’s pilot Give One, Get One program is undergoing a radical transformation that could easily be called Give One, Give Again. In late January, an email went out to the OLPC community announcing that if […]
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 […]
“The Sleepy Giant,” Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920) My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I met. I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits; I’ve eaten them curried with rice; I’ve eaten them baked, […]
Above and below: Unboxing and powerup in Palm Springs. Photos: TED / Michael Brands Below: Google specialists in the Dome help TEDsters get set up; and at bottom, a Nexus One in the wild. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Temple Grandin: If you have these smart geeky kids with a touch of autism, you need to get them turned on to cool things. Chris Anderson (of Wired): We think the tablet is the future of magazines. Flexibility in design, plus interactivity. (He’s holding the March 2010 issue of Wired.) Mitchell Joachim, a TED Fellow: […]
The Summit social space, supported by Workspring, is a calm and private place to hold small meetings and conversations during TED breaks. With projection screens, conference tables and thoughtful attendants, it’s a place to incubate ideas inspired by TED and have meaningful conversations — like this one, below, held in the front conference room of […]
Above: TEDsters line up waiting for the sound of the “March Trionfale” from Aida — the signal to open the doors (below). Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity. Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe? Gary Flake demos Pivot — a way to navigate the web as if it’s actually a web. Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu […]
What’s the best way to keep automobile traffic moving calmly and rationally through an intersection? It’s not a stoplight, it’s not a stop sign, and it’s not a yield sign (who knows what to do at a yield?). In Session 6, Gary Lauder suggests we “Take Turns.” Roundabouts are the best way to build intersections, […]
In Session 7, Breakthrough, Gary Flake demo’ed Pivot, amazing new data visualization tech from Microsoft Live Labs. Learn more here and, if you have a PC, download Pivot and play. Learn more about Pivot here at PressPass (you may need to install Silverlight) and on YouTube.
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 21:53) Watch Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate […]
Above, TED Senior Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira watches TED in simulcast at the Global Village, a social space dedicated to the TED Fellows program. Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, the Global Village sports comfy cushion seating (below) and a touchscreen (bottom) for pinpointing the home countries of the TED Fellows and Senior Fellows at Long […]
Above, a crowd at Palm Springs — including TED’s manager of translation, Kristin Windbigler, at left — chats via AT&T’s HD teleconferencing with TED’s own Leigh Ferreira in Long Beach (seen onscreen wearing a hot pink scarf from TEDIndia…). During the course of TED2010, Leigh led half a dozen chats between Long Beach and Palm […]
OMG, the LXD. Many more photos here >> Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.” David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.” Jake Shimabukuro jamming with Ethel. Blaise Aguera y […]
An amazing shot by TED photographer James Duncan Davidson of the LXD‘s evening rehearsal on Tuesday. (The LXD’s jawdropping show opened Session 6, going on now.) Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson
Photo: TED / Marla Aufmuth