At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 27:49) Watch Bill […]
The thesaurus might equate “disabled” with synonyms like “useless” and “mutilated,” but groundbreaking runner, actor and activist Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Speaking at TEDMED, she hows how adversity — in her case, being born without shinbones — actually opens the door for human potential. (Recorded at TEDMED, November 2009, in San […]
The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party says we’re entering a new era — where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, David Cameron explores how these trends could be turned into smarter policy. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in London; […]
James Cameron: Curiosity — it’s the most powerful thing you own. John Kasaona: We realized that stopping poaching is completely different from catching poachers. Glenna Fraumeni, talking from TEDActive in Palm Springs. Read this. Adora Svitak: We kids still dream about perfection. Our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of reality. Sir Ken Robinson: […]
Benoit Mandelbrot: Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules repeated without end. Magnus Lindkvist: We are afraid to say “I don’t know.” George Whitesides: A stone is simple. But you can build cathedrals of stones. Alan Siegel: We need to build humanity into our paperwork. Philip K. Howard: The law must be simple enough that people […]
The Creativity Lab by Steelcase was a hub of brainstorming, collaboration, intense discussion and even a little hardware hacking throughout TEDActive. Here’s an inside look at what the space had to offer. At the PUR Water station. TEDx event buttons in high production — collect ’em all! An interview in progress at AT&T’s HD Video […]
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 […]
Throughout TEDActive, TEDsters had a chance to participate in something truly magical: the making of a music video (UPDATE: watch the video!). To help out, the musicians and producers with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus stopped in Palm Springs for all four days of the conference. The Bus, a nonprofit mobile recording studio, travels […]
David Byrne, Thomas Dolby and Ethel rock out playing (Nothing But) Flowers. Dave Weaver: “How do you answer, ‘What’s a TED?’” Sarah Silverman: A new perspective on the number 3000. David Rockwell on the Imagination Playground: “No project has ever made me happier.” Yoni Benatar pilots mini drones from his iphone with augmented reality. Eve […]
“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, […]
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: […]
John Underkoffler: “Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that.” Sergey Brin: Our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people. George Church: “We’re not making life from scratch; we’re using all the tricks an engineer can use to leverage natural processes.” Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg of KIPP: […]
At TEDActive, The Innovation Lounge by Bing is a flickering future-gallery from a time when desks and desktop computers have been forgotten, and machines are considered art collaborators rather than just tools. We talked with the space’s curators and each of the artists. Tell me about how you selected the exhibits for the Bing Innovation […]
Ross Evans met the TED Blog to talk about the Worldbike and Xtracycle bicycles that TEDActive attendees have enjoyed on their early-morning rides through the streets of Palm Springs. “The Worldbike is the genesis of this. When I was a sophomore in college I took some time out to go to Nicaragua to help some […]
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 […]
TEDActive Blogger’s Alley in the Bing Innovation Lounge. In the photo: TED’s Kristin Windbigler, Shanna Carpenter and Matthew Trost, and TED speaker Jim Fallon. (Photo: TED / Michael Brands)