The irresistible What We Believe But Cannot Prove sprung out of the annual question asked at edge.org by TEDster John Brockman. The contributors include many TED speakers, including: Martin Rees, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Petranek, Craig Venter, Michael Shermer, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Gilbert, Steven Pinker, Dan Dennett, George Dyson, Irene Pepperberg, Kevin […]
When we selected the books to send TEDsters this month, we just had to include The Untied States of America, the startling new book by futurist Juan Enriquez, who’s spoken so powerfully at TED and TEDGLOBAL. Juan looks at the same facts you and I do, but discovers insights that we miss. His book, shockingly, […]
Gapminer founder Hans Rosling to speak at TED2006
I could lose my blogging privileges for this, but I felt like someone had to point out TED’s Headquarters brightening up the pages of this week’s New York Magazine. Being that the one-year mark has long since past, it seems our “global new-media migrant” has finally found a home in NYC…
As many of you have noticed, there are some new voices on the TEDBlog. Over the months to come, Chris and I will share this space with guest bloggers from the TED community, whose perspective and style we think you’ll enjoy. Starting us off is David Hornik, a contributor since December, who brought you such […]
This evening we unveiled the theme for next year’s TED, and we’re viewing it internally as our most ambitious so far. The past few TEDs have each had a broad content theme:"The Pursuit of Happiness", "Inspired by Nature", "The Future We Will Create." TED2007 will be different. Instead of a subject-matter theme, we are simply […]
MOMA opens an exhibit on Pixar; The Economist surveys the state of CG animation.
The TED2006 program include Al Gore, Peter Gabriel, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. …
After reading Don Norman’s response to 10 Reasons to Hate Your iPod, Matt May declared it the “Best blog comment disclaimer ever.”
Julia Sweeney’s extraordinary one-woman show, “Letting Go of God,” comes to New York. Sweeney to perform at TED2006.
Boy, what a magical night. Here’s Thomas Dolby’s review…—————–Joe’s Pub was the perfect venue to meet TED friends and enjoy three excellent bands. It’s been a while since I enjoyed an evening of music so much. Joe’s booker Bill Bragin is known as one of New York’s greatest champions of new talent, and it was […]
The work of the theoretical physicist dangles just beyond easy comprehension: A world of multiple dimensions, vibrating strings and conceptual leaps, through which only an expert guide can lead you. Enter Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and pioneering string theorist, who’ll take us on a tour of the world’s extra dimensions at TED2006. Randall’s work centers […]
When Radio Golf opened this year at the Yale Repertory Theater, we knew it was the right moment to invite August Wilson to TED. Who better to talk about creating the future than the charismatic Wilson, who set out in 1985 to write a series of ground-breaking plays, chronicling the lives of African Americans in […]
Big discovery for me this year is that the key enabling digital technology in the developing world is probably NOT the computer, but the cell-phone.– TEDster Tom Standage wrote a brilliant cover story in The Economist to this effect.– Iqbal Quadir‘s talk at TEDGLOBAL offered further powerful evidence via the astonishing story of Grameen Phone– […]
Cameron Sinclair‘s mantra: Design like you give a damn. He’s the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. This past year has been a busy one for Cameron, with the tsunami, Katrina and the earthquake in Pakistan. He’s become the […]
It’s difficult to resist making a pun around the name Larry Brilliant. Board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, Larry lived in India for 10 years — first at a Himalayan monastery, and later as a diplomat working for the UN. He helped lead the successful WHO smallpox-eradication program and later founded the Seva Foundation, […]