At TED2005 and TEDGlobal, genomics pioneer Craig Venter mentioned — casually, as always — his desire to create a fully synthetic lifeform, preferably one that will serve society’s greater needs. Venter’s work is singularly ambitious, but he’s not the only one with his eyes on that prize. The idea of designing living machines (albeit ones […]
Time magazine gives the inaugural TED Prize Winner their big annual award. (Well, he has to share it with a Mr. and Mrs. Gates.) And if you missed the talk Bono gave at TED last year, there’s a transcript here, and link to Bono’s TEDTalk here. Well worth hearing.
Well-produced package on Forbes.com celebrates the world’s most influential industrial designers
An article in the Pacific Sun on TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant
Legendary physicist David Deutsch, who gave a stunning talk at TEDGlobal, just won the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize.
A wonderful evening in Woodside last night with TED Prize Winner Dr Larry Brilliant and 100 TEDsters. He shared a little of his story, his involvement in the eradication of smallpox, and his current desire to do something about the risk of an avian flu pandemic.He was simultaneously terrifying and inspiring, and provoked a remarkable […]
So, the quirky competition I launched last week relating to Pledgebank.com has a winner. It is TEDster Lucy Hooberman. She’s looking to re-ignite an idea that was floated at TED in February (literally… it came from the World-Changing Ideas Cruise). The idea is to set up a Global Mentoring Alliance… the sharing of knowledge from […]
A great piece in BusinessWeek Online suggests that TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair and his work with Architecture for Humanity could be the silver lining to this year of natural catastrophes…
TED Prize winner Ed Burtynsky is known for his extraordinary large-format photographs, documenting the impact of humans on Earth. His epic slideshow at TED2005 took us through unorthodox landscapes — mountains of tires, rivers of industrial waste — as eerily beautiful as they are disturbing. You can revisit them (at your own pace) at the […]