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"If I died tomorrow, I would feel fulfilled." That's what one TEDster said to me during the beach barbecue after the close of the conference yesterday afternoon. It was an especially bittersweet goodbye this year, because longtime attendees were also ...
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I'm realizing that it's quite common here at TED to go from 'glass half full' to 'waiter, my glass is empty!' in just a matter of minutes. As you might imagine, this afternoon's panel on 'What Will Tomorrow Bring?' was ...
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How do we create? As a writer, you'd think I'd have a better idea about that than I do. And I'm only more humbled by the creative process after this morning's panel on the subject. Each presenter taught me something ...
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In 2005, TED began a new tradition: three people would be selected each year to receive $100,000 and a wish. The TED community would help the prizewinner make that wish become a reality. Now, make no mistake about it. These ...
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Hearing about Craig Venter's ambitions evokes certain emotions: hope, fear, or some combination of both. Venter, the biologist who is best known for mapping the human genome, spoke this morning about his newest project, the synthetic genome. He sat down ...
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What is life? I'm still not exactly sure after this morning's panel on the subject, but I'm confident that some of the best minds today are trying mightily to figure that out. TED's Chris Anderson gave Craig Venter more than ...
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Thank god celebrities attend TED. That's what plenty of TED attendees muttered to themselves last night when a special BBC America taping with a panel on new media went technologically awry just moments after starting. After a few awkward ...
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Two sessions into my first TED conference, and I'm starting to figure out what it's all about. And I'm also beginning to understand just how difficult it is to translate what happens on stage at TED into words for an ...
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After weeks of speculation sparked by Robert Scoble's tears, Microsoft today unveiled the WorldWide Telescope, a downloadable software that brings the universe to the desktop with unprecedented clarity. And let me just say this: I'm quite certain that if I ...
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Before the official kickoff of this year's TED conference this afternoon, attendees had the option of attending a number of 12-minute talks by selected "professors." The dozens of topics ranged from toy design, to how to be a successful heretic ...
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Monterey is filling up with people who are visibly thrilled to be here. My plane from Denver last night, which carried TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, was abuzz with enthusiasm. In the course of the two and a half hour ...
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Tech bloggers are hoping to find out at the TED conference just what makes Robert Scoble cry. Scoble, a popular blogger among the geek elite and a former technical evangelist for Microsoft, stirred the blogosphere into a tizzy earlier this ...
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The first 30,000 pages of an online "Encyclopedia of Life" — what its designers hope will become the most comprehensive catalogue of all 1.8 million known species — is scheduled to be unveiled Wednesday at the annual TED conference. Harvard ...
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Interested in attending the TED Conference? You'll need to wait for 2010. The 2009 conference sold out hours after tickets went on sale, Tom Rielly of TED said. The 2008 conference starts next week in Monterey, California. It sold out ...
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James Surowicki turned common sense and folk wisdom — collective intelligence, really — into a cutting-edge idea with his book The Wisdom of Crowds. Open source programming is perhaps the most powerful example of the idea's practical application. Wikipedia extended ...
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When documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won a TED Prize in 2006, her wish was nothing if not ambitious. She wished for world peace. To translate that noble goal into a practical program, Pangea Day was founded. The goal of Pangea ...
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TED has opened the registration page for its 2009 conference at its new home in Long Beach, California. Full TED Conference 2008 coverage ...
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Bonnie Hammer, president of the USA Network and the Sci Fi Channel, is honored by The Paley Center for Media at its annual ceremony called "She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio" on December 6, 2007.
Photograph by Robert Caplin.
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