At the conference midway point, a few images from the TEDGlobal stage … Mali-born, Paris-based chanteuse Rokia Traore opens the conference with a traditional Griot song of welcome. TED Curator Chris Anderson and TEDGlobal Program Director Emeka Okafor co-host the show from the TED stage. Technorati tags: tedglobal2007 Technorati Profile
Tuesday, June 5, from around the blogs: Erik Hertsman at White African reports: Google has hired its first sub-Saharan Africa employee! Joseph Mucheru has been named the new site lead for Google Kenya. This was whispered to be happening, but at today’s Google lunch at TEDGlobal the position was made official by Francoise Brougher, Director […]
On the first day of the conference, the discussion between Andrew Mwenda and Bono electrified the audience and those following the conference via blogs. Here’s what bloggers both inside and outside the conference had to say: Felix Salmon’s Market Movers blog for Portfolio.com gives an overview: … the conference kicked off with [William] Easterly-by-proxy Andrew […]
Those of you who’ve attended TED in Monterey know that when you hear the Elephant March from Aïda, it means the doors for the Main Hall have opened, and it’s time to scramble for a seat. (Over the years, this becomes a Pavlovian response; a single bar of that striding score touches off the rush […]
In the months before each TED, we ask speakers to fill in a short, casual questionnaire for the program guide, answering questions like “Who are your heroes?” and “Family apart, what are you most proud of?” Most speakers write a sentence or two for each. But for TEDGlobal 2007, iconoclastic Ghanaian economist George Ayittey took […]
Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks the audience to step into the open ocean for a visit to the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish, and getting massages, this behemoth offers clues to life in the open ocean — which accounts for 90 percent of the living space on this […]
Nora York — an adventurous jazz singer and genre-crossing performance artist — lit up the stage at last year’s TED salon with her stunning original song, “What I Want” (watch it now on TED.com). She returns to the New York stage this week with STACKED! : a retrospective evening of her hybrid and recombinant musical […]
Architect David Rockwell joined forces with Chee Perlman and Kevin Kelly (TEDizens, all) in San Francisco last night, to celebrate Spectacle, the gorgeous book he created with Bruce Mau, exploring the phenomenon of public performance. Photos by Robert Leslie.
One of the greatest things about TED is the opportunity to get acquainted with people who are already part of your life, even if you don’t know them personally. Be it hearing them in a speech, meeting them in the audience, or catching them in a TEDTalks video, TED gives us all a chance to […]
The theme for the TED 2008 conference was recently announced — it is "The Big Questions." A worthy theme for TED, indeed, but not one I am yet prepared to ponder. Rather, as TED 2007 is literally around the corner, I find myself much more engaged in contemplating next week’s theme — "Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks." […]
Worth a read: Fascinating Op/Ed piece in today’s Times by Carolyn Porco on the brightening future for human space travel, which has been faltering since the Nixon era. TED2006 speaker, Burt Rutan, had a lot to say about this in his TED talk, which provocatively began: “Houston, we have a problem. We’re entering a second […]
Along the social absorption route, there is always a point where complex issues and inconvenient messages percolate into the pop-culture sphere and start being considered self-evident, possibly triggering changes in behavior and other individual or collective responses. For the climate crisis that point may be nearing. It may even have a precise date: this year’s […]
Yes, that’s a NASCAR racer pictured above, and yes, you’re still on the TEDBlog. If you think there’s something incongruous about mentioning NASCAR and TED in the same sentence, I’d like to ask you to imagine NASCAR as an interesting place where a corporate strategy focusing on technology, entertainment, and design goes to create stories […]
Architect Zaha Hadid, scheduled to speak at TED2007 in March, today unveiled plans for a stunning performing arts center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The center encompasses five individual theaters, and will be one of five major cultural institutions on the new cultural district of Saadiyat Island. “It’s an inspiration from nature, and an […]
The hoopla around the launch of the iphone is further proof of the power of multi-touch interfaces to transform the way we use computers. Jeff Han blew away the TED audience in Monterey in February with his pioneering demo. There were rumors that Apple had tried (unsuccessfully) to hire Jeff at one point to work […]
At the end of his first speech at TED2006, Al Gore announced that he was going to train a thousand people to give the climate change presentation he gave there – and which is at the core of his movie An Inconvenient Truth. That has turned into the Climate Project, and three training sessions have […]