Chris Anderson, TED’s curator, told us on day 1 that this would be the most ambitious TED conference yet and, for its organisers, the most terrifying because speakers had been invited to find new, powerful ways of extracting the most out of their talks. Each had been urged, said Anderson, to “find the prism that […]
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Tony Delamothe: TED Day 3: Of revolutions, algorithms, and wonder
By the end of the third day it was clear that one of the major conference themes had become “Revolution 2.0,” political upheaval facilitated by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In the words of one speaker, “the internet didn’t cause the revolutions,but it allowed them to happen.” Day one had had Al-Jazeera’s director general on stage […]
Tony Delamothe: TED Day Two: The many paths to changing the world
Day 2 began with a choice: a clinic on sand sculpting or breakfast with Al Gore, both scheduled to begin at 7am. I felt I owed it to the VP. I had asked him about the health consequences of global warming after his 2006 TED talk, which formed the basis for “An Inconvenient Truth.” What […]
Tony Delamothe: TED Day One: The Return of the Human
The night before the TED conference began, “The King’s Speech” beat “The Social Network,” four Oscars to three. A friend with a stake in the outcome had argued that a story revolving around 21st century technology (Facebook) should have had an advantage over a story revolving around a 20th century one (radio). […]