TEDsters spotted at the An Inconvenient Truth Screening: (from left to right Truth Producer Lawrence Bender, V.C. Vinod Kholsa, now investing in alternative energy, and the lovely Gwen Campbell; TED Curator Chris Anderson; TEDPrize 2006 winner Cameron Sinclair; former American India Foundation exec Lakshmi Pratury, who is starting a new conference about the best of […]
Last October, Chris put a challenge to the TED community, pledging $1000 to the person who created the most eye-popping proposition on Pledgebank. Lucy Hooberman took that prize with her global mentoring project, a plan to match professionals in the developed and developing worlds, which was originally hatched at TED2005. A BBC new media executive […]
At TED2006, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan came out swinging. “Houston, we have a problem,” he declared, and went on to lambast the government-funded space program for failing to inspire the next generation. NASA has stalled, he says, especially when it comes to manned flights. And the solution is privately funded spacecraft development (the kind […]
“When did we start calling gossip ‘memes’?” TEDPrize director Amy Novogratz asked today, as we discussed our favorite rumor — I mean “meme” — from TED2006: It seems, many people (including some media outlets) mistakenly believed that David Bowie had joined us in Monterey. He’d be welcome, of course, but he wasn’t there. (Nor was […]
“One of the tragic aspects of human-right abuses is that they’re too easily forgotten or denied; but it appears that if there are cameras around, they tend to happen less.” —Peter Gabriel [Session write up | Photo] “If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can’t we?” —Dr. Alan Russell explaining advances in regenerative medicine. […]
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 […]
Well-produced package on Forbes.com celebrates the world’s most influential industrial designers
Legendary physicist David Deutsch, who gave a stunning talk at TEDGlobal, just won the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize.
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 […]