{"id":987,"date":"2010-02-10T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T11:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=987"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:00:17","slug":"david-payne-on-ideas-worth-spreading-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2010\/02\/10\/david-payne-on-ideas-worth-spreading-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"David Payne on ideas worth spreading in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/davidpayne.jpg\" alt=\"David Payne\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" align=\"left\" \/>I just shared a sofa with a 25-year-old Canadian inventor, a Texan neuroscientist turned fiction writer who authored a recent <a title=\"synaesthesia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/extract\/340\/jan08_1\/b4616\" target=\"_blank\">BMJ editorial<\/a> on synaesthesia, a former lawyer and journalist who now runs a global technology company, and a social entrepreneur whose mother took her out of school each summer to see the world. Some of us are meeting for dinner later.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Each year leading figures from the worlds of <strong>technology, entertainment, and design<\/strong> converge on Long Beach, California for <a title=\"TED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a>, a four day conference attended by 1500 invited delegates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m down the road in rainy Palm Springs for its offshoot <a title=\"TEDActive\" href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2010\/program\/TEDActive.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDActive<\/a>, a more intimate live simulcast of the main event. There are around 500 of us here. Day 1 starts tomorrow.\u00a0 Speaking tomorrow (none of them for longer than 18 minutes), are speakers including campaigning chefs<a title=\"Jamie Oliver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\"> Jamie Olive<\/a>r and<a title=\"Dan Barber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehillfarm.com\/food\/overview\/team\/dan-barber\" target=\"_blank\"> Dan Barber<\/a>, Nobel prizewinner and behavioual economist <a title=\"Daniel Kahneman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Kahneman\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Kahneman<\/a>, ukelele virtuoso <a title=\"Jake Shimabukuro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jakeshimabukuro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Shimabukuro<\/a>, and cancer researcher William Li.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently my introduction to TED is pretty typical. I&#8217;ve been warned that sensory overload will deprive me of sleep, that my taste in music may change, and I&#8217;ll forge lasting relationships with some of my fellow TEDsters.<\/p>\n<p>Already, thanks to neuroscientist and BMJ editorialist <a title=\"David Eagleman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eagleman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Eagleman<\/a>, I&#8217;ve discovered the idea of <a title=\"Possibilian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.possibilian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">possibilianism<\/a>, which celebrates ignorance and favours a middle ground beween atheism and religion. There was also a sofa debate on the chances of discovering a gene for immortality by 2100, and how better school-age education could help us find a solution to reducing waste.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David Payne<\/strong> is editor, bmj.com, doc2doc.bmj.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just shared a sofa with a 25-year-old Canadian inventor, a Texan neuroscientist turned fiction writer who authored a recent BMJ editorial on synaesthesia, a former lawyer and journalist who now runs a global technology company, and a social entrepreneur whose mother took her out of school each summer to see the world. 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