kev/null » nicholas negroponte http://kevnull.com Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 At TED http://kevnull.com/2006/02/at-ted.html http://kevnull.com/2006/02/at-ted.html#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:10:14 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/2006/02/at-ted.html

Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). The idea of going to this was to branch out a bit and take away from these conferences, to bring the experience back to what I do: comics and design. Some highlights from the last couple of days before I forget everything I’m seeing.

  • Hans Rosling presents visualizations found at gapminder.org illustrating the effects of number of children
  • Richard Baraniuk and his open source learning through Connexions. Create, Rip, Mix, Burn.
  • Video of a bypass surgery involving regenerative tissue – where all I can think of is how the surgeon is holding a beating heart in his hand (except this isn’t a movie like Temple of Doom)
  • Penelope Boston postulates up to 50% chance that there can be life on Mars
  • Pastor Rick Warren speaks on his book “A Purposeful Life” immediately followed by atheist Dan Dennett
  • Michael Shermer of Skeptics society and a whole lotta debunking
  • Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop – a laptop per child and a mock of it
  • Al Gore’s global warming presentation and imagery
  • The TED prize winners and their wishes, which I’m sure will be on the website shortly
  • I’m sure I’m forgetting a whole ton of stuff …

I’m usually pretty comfortable in design conferences, especially now with OK/Cancel, there’s an easy ice breaker for meeting people. Here, it’s been somewhat more daunting because every name tag that I’ve read says Principal, CEO, VP, and such. In principal, I understand there is no difference, they are people who are here to meet and greet and be inspired by people from different disciplines as well but it’s always one thing to be rational and another when it comes to action. Matt Groening walks by, Sergey Brin passes me half a dozen times, there’s Al Gore, there’s Tim Brown, CEO od IDEO, and hey is that Peter Gabriel?

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