TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design - is a conference that has been held in California once a year since 1984. The TED website (http://www.ted.com/) says, "The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)".
There are only 1,000 people invited and until now the talks were never open to the public. Now, however, because of the web and iTunes, the talks are available for free to the public either by live viewing on the TED website or by free download via iTunes.
The videos range from incredible musicians, to top of their field computer technicians. The most fascinating thing perhaps is to look at past years videos of top new technologies that have now been incorporated into our daily lives.
I would encourage everyone I know to watch these videos, they are inspirational, entertaining, and will help you look at everything in the world a little bit closer.
In later blogs I will look closer at a few of my favorite talks. But before that, I wanted to lay the groundwork for what exactly TED is.
-There I said it
There are only 1,000 people invited and until now the talks were never open to the public. Now, however, because of the web and iTunes, the talks are available for free to the public either by live viewing on the TED website or by free download via iTunes.
The videos range from incredible musicians, to top of their field computer technicians. The most fascinating thing perhaps is to look at past years videos of top new technologies that have now been incorporated into our daily lives.
I would encourage everyone I know to watch these videos, they are inspirational, entertaining, and will help you look at everything in the world a little bit closer.
In later blogs I will look closer at a few of my favorite talks. But before that, I wanted to lay the groundwork for what exactly TED is.
-There I said it
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