Instead of futurists, let’s be now-ists: Joi Ito at TED2014
On March 10, 2011, Joi Ito was in the MIT Media Lab, in discussions about whether he should be the next director of the mythical innovation ...
Onward: Speakers in Session 12 at TED2014
As we celebrate the last three decades of ideas at TED, we’re looking ahead and asking ourselves: what’s next? Each of the speakers in this ...
Neil Gaiman tells ghost stories late in the night at TED2014
If you walked up the twisting mahogany staircase of the Vancouver Club on Tuesday, past an ominous portrait of a man in a kilt and an empty ...
A TED Fellows tour of Vancouver
With 12 mainstage sessions and 5 sessions of All-Stars, there wasn’t much time for exploring Vancouver during TED2014. As a great preq...
In the Skype Studio: Creative crowd-funding
At TED2013, Amanda Palmer gave a talk called “The art of asking” about her experience funding an album on Kickstarter; it quickl...
Hope on the Golden Gate Bridge: Sergeant Kevin Briggs at TED2014
Sergeant Kevin Briggs recently retired from the California Highway Patrol after 23 years of service, the majority of which included patrolli...
The crisis of modern parenting: Jennifer Senior at TED2014
Why do so many people today experience parenthood like a kind of crisis? That’s the question Jennifer Senior sets out to answer on the...
Multiple personalities take the stage: Sarah Jones at TED2014
Sarah Jones is an actor and monologuist who comes on stage to explain her own diverse background. “I grew up in a family that was mult...
Leadership is about making others feel safe: Simon Sinek at TED2014
Simon Sinek begins his talk with the story of former U.S. Army Captain William D. Swenson. In 2009, Swenson was on an operation in Afghanist...