Photo: James Duncan Davidson In Reid Hoffman, we’ve already welcomed the start-up whisperer. Now here’s the “book whisperer”, or, as Chip Kidd describes himself, he’s a “book designer, page turner, dog eared place holder, notes in the margins taker, ink sniffer.” And with a wiggle of his hips, Kidd’s off to tell us about devoting 25 years of […]
Now we move to the world of design, with a session co-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell featuring leading practitioners from architecture, graphic design, the art world and even that less well known discipline of “expertry.” Illustrations by Maira Kalman are projected onto the stage set to reflect some of the themes the speakers will […]
[youtube=http://youtu.be/IzSfKP8wcgo] At TED2012, attendees got to play a fun game with genes: Swab your cheek, submit it to the techs at Genentech, and get back a “genetic symphony” based on some very interesting genetic markers. Watch and see how it happens. You can hear the whole smphony at gene.com/TED. Video: Rachel Tobias
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Bryan Stevenson spends most of his time in jails and prisons and on death row. He’s a lawyer, and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. So he’s found it very energizing at TED, and wanted to start by pointing out that there is a distinct identity here. Things said here have a […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson A ‘scheduling snafu’ led to two speakers being booked for the same slot, but Chris Anderson felt he had to honor the comittment to both, so Andrea Kates and Thomas Stat both took the stage and delivered a TEDTalk, at the same time. Kates and Stat begin tossing out phrases, backed by slides, […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Taylor Wilson is a 17-year old nuclear physicist. No, really. He charms the audience from the get-go, making the case that “you know, as a scientist, the glass is always 100% full, with water and air.” But he’s really here to make two cases: that nuclear fusion will be the energy […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Neuroscientist Tali Sharot comes on stage to discuss the “optimism bias.” It’s a topic that she’s been studying in her lab and she claims that 80% of us experience it. “It” being the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to us. As she puts it: “we’re more optimistic […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Just a moment ago Sherry Turkle‘s daughter texted her: “Mom, you will rock.” Turkle loved it, she says. “Getting that text was like getting a hug.” Turkle, who has written extensively on the nature of human relations on the internet, who evangelized the internet, who loves receiving that text, is here to tell […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Jim Stengel enters the TED courtroom to make the case that it’s time to change the state of business. But he starts his story with the tale of his younger brother, Bob, who grew up to be a star physician and to whom he was super-close from childhood. You can hear his pride […]
Court really will be in session in this session, in which we gather together forward thinkers to debate provocative ideas of the day. After each talk, the speaker will have to face the Jury’s verdict. In this session: Jim Stengel, a brand marketer looking to change the narrative of business. Read about his touching appeal for […]
Laurence Kemball-Cook on his Pavegen at TEDYou during TEDActive 2012, March 1, 2012. Photo: Michael Brands / TED TEDActive’s TEDYou Session 2 has it all: smiles, education (reform) reform, dances for disability, interrupting cows, kung fu and robotic twins. Leigh Rowan, “The Zaniness of the Frequent Flyer”: Leigh Rowan, COO of Moderne Communications, tells a […]
Here’s the third talk from TED2012 (still going on). Yestrday, Vijay Kumar wowed the TED audience with his (and his team’s) flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams, and he premiered a very special music video — created specially for TED — which has gone viral less than a […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson The TED Prize Wish, revealed today at TED2012, asks global citizens to help the world’s cities to become inclusive, innovative, healthy, soulful and thriving. To help make this happen, TED is offering an online platform that will allow people to sign up, register skills and interest, and connect with each other, […]
This powerful wish asks us all to build the city that the future needs. Visit theCity2.Org to join in. Here’s the full text of this inspiring wish: I am the crucible of the future. I am where humanity will either flourish or fade. I am being built and rebuilt every day. I am inevitable. But […]
Photos: James Duncan Davidson [tweet https://twitter.com/TEDNews/status/175057722868371456%5D Vy Higginsen introduces the Gospel for Teens section of the Mama Foundation for the Arts, an organization she founded in 1998. The program is a way to teach teenagers the art of gospel music. “We want them to know who they are and where they come from musically,” she […]
Suja Lowenthal is the Vice Mayor of Long Beach, but she’s also involved in a major project on the other side of the world. She tells us, in the 2012 TED Prize session, a story of a city that is yet to be. Storytelling is a universal language that “survives through our voice and our […]