Documentary star Al Gore made a surprise appearance along with his wife Tipper at the special Thursday afternoon TEDScreening of An Inconvenient Truth, the new Davis Guggenheim film about Gore’s 30 year odyssey to bring global warming to the world’s attention and convince us to take action. Producer Lawrence Bender and TED Curator Chris Anderson […]
100 years and two days after the Great Quake of 1906, and 12 hours of sunshine following a month and a half of rain, about 100 TEDsters from the Bay Area came together last night to "cocktail and tasty bits" with 2006 TEDPrize Winner Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity. Joining him were […]
Josh Rushing, the American star of 2006 TEDPrize winner Jehane Noujaim‘s documentary Control Room has gone and done something very unexpected: he quit the U.S. Military after 14 years to join the English language Al-Jazeera International news station as on-air talent. As you may recall from the film, former marine Rushing, one of the U.S. […]
Finally the story can be told…How a dedicated team of intrepid writers, designers, and Candy Building Architects stayed up all night to bring you this year’s TED wrap-up. A quick shout out and thank you to writers David Hornik, Nicholas Baker, and John (did you see the man in a gorilla suit?) Boyden; PhotoShop gurus […]
Over the last month, we’ve made mention of many TED Moments. Everyone seems to remember different details, different conversations… But leave it to Rives, slam-poet in residence at TED2006, to take it to an entirely different level … (Note: scroll down in his blog to March 5th)
The brain is incredible. The human capacity for perception, reason, logic — the sheer processing power inside our skulls — is, well, mind-boggling. But as incredible an organ as is the human brain, it is fallible. Even the "geniuses" we’ll hear from at TED2007 have imperfect brains. Take, for example, human memory — we all […]
Several weeks later, we find we’re still intrigued by what was said and done and felt during those four days in Monterey. And it seems we’re not the only ones. Writing in his TrueTalk blog, Tom Guarriello notes: “A week after returning home from TED2006, I find myself returning to ideas, experiences and people more […]
“We lead off with Ethel, an innovative string quartet, who sound something like Bartok leading a jug band of super-hip Brooklynites… and I mean that in a good way.” — Ethan Zuckerman
Last week, we posted an entry called Sharing TED Moments, recollecting the most magical Monterey moments. The post drew some great anecdotes from TEDsters, including: Diego Rodriguez: Having lunch with Burt Rutan. Seeing the look of surprise on his face when I told him that he was one of my inspirations when I was a […]
I don’t know about you, but my mind is simply abuzz with the sights, sounds, emotions, and ideas I encountered at TED 2006. I can’t wait for the TED DVD to arrive so that I can go back and listen to the words of Sir Ken Robinson, hear the music of Thomas Dolby, and soak […]
Every year, we leave Monterey buzzing about our “TED moments”: those magical instances of creativity and connectivity that can happen only at TED. Some are collective experiences: a moment of profound inspiration on stage ripples through the audience, and you can almost see the lightbulbs illuminating over 500 heads. Others are deeply personal … the […]
The three TED Prize wishes presented last week are all insanely HUGE ideas and each has the power to change the world we’re living in. Larry Brilliant: I wish you will help build a global system to detect each new disease or disaster as quickly as it emerges or occurs. Jehane Noujaim: I wish to […]
Sachi Gahan was due to come to TED2006 last week. Tragically her husband Drew Lippolt (pictured here) was killed in a motorcycle accident shortly before TED. She has written movingly about her husband at http://www.goodbyedrew.com and at her blog (a painful real-life example of the power of personal blogging that Mena Trott spoke about last […]
Tony Robbins, Julia Sweeney, Rick Warren, Al Gore and the Main Hall audience. Just a few of the images of an incredible week in Monterey. Many more here. …and some of the early comments from attendees:"My brain hurts""I loved TED last year, but I am now officially addicted. That was amazing.""I am at once exhausted […]
I thought I’d follow David Hornik’s post about the gift bag loot, with a note on the bag itself … We’re proud to say that this year’s gift bag is the first totally sustainable messenger bag produced by Timbuk2. Its genesis is a great TED story … Inspired by eco-architect William McDonough’s talk at TED2005 […]
After an incredible four days at TED, I drove home to my family in the Bay Area. My kids were happy to see me, but they were far more interested in ransacking my TED gift bag. As veterans of my many conference trips over the years, the kids are acutely aware that the TED gift […]