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TED - A Taste of TED - 2007
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mlsmolens on May 31, 2007
Wondering what happened at TED2007? Curious about the new season of TEDTalks? Catch a sneak preview with this 7-minute Taste of TED documentary
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- [TED]
- [♫ piano music ♫]
- [MONTEREY CALIFORNIA]
- [MARCH 7-10 2007]
- [MONTEREY CONFERENCE CENTER ONE PORTOLA PLAZA]
- [TOM RIELLY]
- What's amazing is right now
- people are starting to arrive;
- and there's this sense of excitement.
- They know this is something special.
- The whole thing about Ted that I like
- is that it brings together these people
- [SIRKEN ROBINSON]
- from lots of different backgrounds. You know, you've got scientists, artists,
- Right now, I'm making a lot of final choices
- [HANS ROSLING]
- So that's how it is.
- [TED]
- ♫♫
- [CHRIS ANDERSON]
- I must warn you that at some point during the next four days
- your brain might explode.
- By then, you won't even care.
- It's time for TED.
- [applause]
- The discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system,
- whether it be on Enceladus or elsewhere,
- would have enormous cultural and scientific implications
- because if we could demonstrate that genesis had occurred,
- [CAROLYN PORCO]
- not once, but twice, independently in our solar system,
- then that means by inference it has occurred a staggering number of times
- throughout the universe in its 13.7 billion year history.
- [STEVEN PINKER]
- The original title of this session was, "Everything you know is wrong,"
- and I'm going to present evidence that
- this particular part of our common understanding is wrong,
- that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are,
- that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time,
- and that today, we are probably living in the most peaceful time
- in our species' existence.
- As the bacteria we was, we had no idea of
- [PHILIPPE STARCK]
- what we are today. And today, we have no idea
- of what we shall be in four billion years.
- And this territory is fantastic, that is our poetry.
- I thought Philippe Starck's slideless presentation yesterday
- [JONATHAN HARRIS]
- was incredible. I loved what he said about vision,
- and not looking too far down, and not looking too far up,
- but looking at the right angle forward.
- The perspective of everyone here is
- [JJ ABRAMS]
- so specific, that I think the fun, and the beauty of these talks,
- is to appreciate and relate to people
- who are in incredibly different fields than you are.
- Every city in the world can be improved
- [JAIME LERNER]
- Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie,
- [EMILY OSTER]
- every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies,
- that's a costly investment in your health.
- And I wanted to figure out how I could
- [JEFF SKOLL]
- take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
- I didn't see Hans Rosling's talk,
- but I had the privilege of having lunch with him, and
- [SIR RICHARD BRANSON]
- it's just fascinating that every single person you meet
- is doing something incredible.
- It is the enormous impact of the... That was the big impact.
- And it's so fascinating. I've started to think in the term of
- web 2.0 for e-learning.
- I want the main universities of the world to compete
- on what rank they have on Google venue.
- Well, it's a little terrifying, because you look through the list of who's here,
- and you realize these are all the people in the world
- [LAWRENCE LESSIG]
- you'd like hear what you have to say.
- So, it's your one shot, 18 minutes, to get them to hear something.
- I was thinking about this, what to talk about at TED,
- when I talked to the kind rep from TED, and I said, "Listen,
- what should I talk about?"
- He said, "Don't worry about it. Just be profound."
- [audience laughter]
- It's the impression that you get of just this huge diversity of expertise,
- and passion, and skill, and I just love it.
- I mean I go to lots of conferences, but this is more like a rock concert—
- honestly, truthfully. I've never been to a conference before where people
- are actually pushing people aside to get into the room.
- It's normally the other way around. People are kind of scrambling to get out.
- [crowd noise]
- [15 MINUTES BEFORE TED PRIZE]
- [♫ quiet music ♫, crowd noise]
- [♫ quiet music ♫]
- TED PRIZE
- The TED prize is a marvelous idea to reward people who've
- [AUBREY de GREY]
- already done a great deal of important things.
- At the moment what they're doing is they're awarding three of these things each year,
- so this year—
- The TED prize winners today,
- no one can beat Bill Clinton,
- [RIVES]
- and no one's going to be more compassionate than EO Wilson,
- and I think James Nachtwey just has these colossal balls
- for doing what he does.
- I'm a witness, and I want my testimony to be honest and uncensored.
- I also want it to be powerful,
- [JAMES NACHTWEY]
- and eloquent, and to do as much justice as possible to the experience
- of the people I'm photographing.
- [EO WILSON]
- If we were to wipe out insects alone,
- which we are trying hard to do, the rest of life, and humanity with it,
- would mostly disappear.
- We have a chance here,
- [BILL CLINTON]
- to prove that a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence
- can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow,
- and provide comprehensive quality health care with minimal outside help.
- [♫ music ♫]
- [CLOSING BEACH PARTY]
- If it was like a piece of music, there would be these really emotional upswells,
- [ERIN MCKEAN]
- and then there would be kind of this deep baseline of intellectualism,
- all the way through.
- It was very exhilarating.
- [JAMES DEMETRIOS]
- I think what was cool about it is that it was basically kind of an idea-harvesting place.
- One of the things I'm happy about, is it's the most diverse TED ever,
- the most international TED ever,
- and I think certainly the most musical TED ever.
- [♫ brass music ♫]
- [THOMAS DOLBY]
- Some fantastic guests, Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman,
- They Might be Giants, [s/l Raul McDon], my own house band,
- which is with a live brass section this year,
- for the first time. The music is great at TED, because
- people are so overstimulated intellectually,
- that a little bit of musical relaxation is a very good thing.
- [♫ Tracy Chapman sings with acoustic guitar ♫]
- [TRACY CHAPMAN]
- [♫ quiet music ♫]
- The future of TED really is about continuing to take risks.
- Can we make Pangea a big success?
- [TOM RIELLY]
- Will Instead change the world? Is OAN going to really be amazing?
- Will we bring affordable health care to Rwanda?
- Are we going to help James Nachtwey tell his story?
- Are we going to build an encyclopedia of life?
- Those are awfully interesting questions, and I'm really looking forward
- to seeing what the results are going to be.
- [♫ quiet music ♫]
- [TED TALKS 2007]
- [COMING SOON]


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