Gestern habe ich einige Talks von TED betrachtet. Einmal im Jahr treffen sich 1000 Personen, um etwas Wertvolles zu teilen: Ihre Ideen. Einige PersonenIn 18 Minuten haben :
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
In der jährlichen TED Konferenz werden u.a. 50 Sprecher eingeladen, in jeweils 18 Minuten ihre Idee vorzustellen:
The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus short talks, performances and evening events).
Diese 8 x 18 = 144 Minuten habe ich genossen:
- Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
- Robert Wright: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
- Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
- Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
- Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
- David Deutsch: What is our place in the cosmos?
[ via Superdistribution: For optimists and pessimists with self-doubt ff. ]