What TED stands for ?
TED, which baseline is now “ideas worth spreading”, stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It had its first conference in 1984, and has now become an important event gathering top speakers addressing a top level crowd.
I have heard of the conference from newspapers articles a few months ago, and a friend from Brazil recently reminded me it. She sent me links to TED’s website where some presentations are available.
The few ones I saw are clearly outstanding.
Two questions to be addressed though:
- In the vast ocean of uninteresting things available on the web, how to highlight such excellent materials?
- What’s next? After some of the talks, especially the ones addressing global issues, you are more aware but still passive. That goes back to a great concern about the Internet in general: spending more and more time being over-informed, doing very little. The Web has yet to find its political dimension.
Posted by RD.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Yes it’s a great site. I watched a few great talks yesterday evening.
And, no, it’s not pointless, there are somet hings we can do, right now :
Just watch this one about food :
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat.html
Let’s eat less meat.
Thanks for your post, R.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Yo Man,
I am going to deal with cow farts and practise my moves:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kenichi_ebina_s_magic_moves.html