TED is the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference, where over 1,000 "thought-leaders, movers and shakers" gather to hear the latest ideas in Monterey, California. The conference is being held March 7-10, and since I wasn't fortunate enough to get a ticket (you have to prove you're a mover and shaker, so I'll apply and try to get a ticket for 2008), here are some of my favorite talks from previous years:
Richard Baraniuk, Rice University professor is on a mission create a free, global online education system, Connexions. Richard's system will transform the way that knowledge gets distributed throughout the world - truly game-changing.
Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, is creating the $100 laptop to help educate children in third-world countries. Affordable technologies like this are key to lifting these countries out of poverty.
Ze Frank - contained within this 2004 standup routine, he talks for a few seconds about his viral video. His current site is at http://www.zefrank.com/theshow.
Jehane Noujaim, creator of the film Startup.com, talks about bringing the world together through the power of film.
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