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Starting the session, former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. “It’s a wake-up call we need.” Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.” Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 […]
TED’s photo editor Mike Femia digs this picture above: “It looks like an impressionist painting, but in neon lights.” From the Wednesday-night Block Party on Pine Street in Long Beach, with the amazing Ozomatli (below). More pics from the Block Party >> Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson
From the TED Prize session: Jamie Oliver has announced his TED Prize wish. THE WISH: “I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” THE PLAN: Set up an organization to create a popular movement […]
Amy Novogratz just announced from stage that Google has donated $1 million to AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This follows Daphney Singo’s moving talk about how AIMS is helping her gain her PhD in nuclear physics — a standing-ovation story of one South African woman’s determination to become educated. As her mother told […]
From the TED Prize session: Mission Blue is the name for an ambitious, overarching project to create marine protected areas. It’s powered by Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TEDPrize wish: “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine […]
From the TED Prize Session: From stage just now, SETI legend Frank Drake announced the new project SETI Quest — a place to build a network of committed Earthlings who want to help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. It’s the result of Jill Tarter’s 2009 TED Prize wish. How can you help? From the […]
In the Imaginarium, GE created an environment for listening to TEDTalks and then sharing reactions and inspirations, using a glowing, multipart multimedia sculpture that recorded thoughts and ideas from TEDsters. (You can see some of the feedback on Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo in the postroll at the end of his TEDTalk.) Below, a detail […]
Above, at the Hub, attendees played with Nokia’s fast and tiny Booklet 3G netbook. Below, a scene from Nokia’s data visualizations of the Twittersphere, with live updates, stats and fun outliers. It’s <a href="addictive. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
A much-requested slide from Dr. William Li’s TEDTalk in Session 2: Courtesy The Angiogenesis Foundation
On the top floor of the theater, the SyFy Network supported a groovy social space called the Playroom — featuring a director’s-eye view of each camera on our 8-camera shoot. On Friday, as part of the hosted conversation series, TED2010 speaker Jane McGonigal came to the Playroom to talk about her new game, Evoke.
Stephen Morrissey is the 2008 World Barista Champion — watch him in action. He’s at TED in Long Beach with Intelligentsia Coffee, and some of us are a little bit starstruck. Photo: TED / Marla Aufmuth
As you can see above, the lobby of the Terrace Theater is big. To bring it down in scale, and create more intimacy and connection for attendees, this year we divided the lobby and Plaza into nine areas we call “social spaces.” We’ll profile or photoblog each social space on the TED Blog. One feature […]
A detail from the TED2010 stage — full reveal at 11am. We can. Not. Wait. Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson
Back in summer 2008, a group of Google engineers started horsing around with multiscreen displays and Google Earth, using their 20 Percent time. Fast forward a year and a half, and the hack has turned into this sensurround array of seven screens, offering an immersive experience that’s like stepping inside Google Earth. From the Google […]
TED’s legendary Gift Bag evolved this year — it’s still a gorgeous Rickshaw Bagworks messenger bag filled with goodies, but this year, by popular demand, attendees could choose their own custom set of TED Gifts to go inside it and have the bag mailed home. Which is lovely, but does set up an issue: at […]
TED2010 photographer Duncan Davidson took this happy shot outside on the Plaza this morning — and recalled the sad fate of last year’s TED balloon, which flew off in a storm and was never heard from again. “I actually saw it as it started to rip off,” he remembers, “but then I turned my back […]