Technology Entertainment Design (TED) was an idea put
forward by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in the year 1984, they believed
that the idea had the power and potential to change the world. The provided the
entrepreneurs of tomorrow a platform to present, scrutinize and evolve their
idea into actions. Held annually since
the year 1990 it has housed some very serious talents and some very wonderful
ideas. From Al Gore to Jimmy Wales, Legend after legend has donned this stage,
where innovation was a mere habit.
The TED mission statement reads on.
“We believe passionately in the
power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately,
The world. So we're building
here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and
inspiration from the world's
most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious
souls to engage with ideas and
each other.”
Every time you hear a TED talk it leaves you in awe, awe at
the progress of technology, awe at the profoundness of human thought and awe at
the magnificence of humanity’s creative abundance. Each video, portraying an
interesting idea that could possibly change the world tomorrow. A cool
conference of highly successful people, putting their head together to solve
tomorrow’s big problems. What strikes me most about the TED conferences are the
sheer scope and scale of the ideas. People inventing state of the art
technologies and people finding innovative ways to work with humanities age old
problems.
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| Pranav Mistri with his 6th Sense Device |
That’s all about TED in a nutshell. I suggest you see a TED
video often, If you have never you should see one right now. Just to stay in
touch with the humanitarian and innovative side of the humanity.
Find more about TED at www.ted.com