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TED Session 2: Tim Berners-Lee, Nandan Nilekani…

February 4, 2009

The theme is REFRAME.
1. Tim Berners-Lee
20 years ago, my boss said I could work on web as a side project. Was initially difficult to explain what the web is like, but it was a grassroots movement. The spirit of all these people getting together sending emails.
Then, putting data on the web is frustration — [...]

TED Women’s Lunch: Blue Man Group Movie

February 4, 2009

At lunch just now I met the producers of the upcoming Blue Man Group 3-D IMAX movie. They have just finished the script (it’s an original production, not a documentary or a video of an existing show) and are interviewing directors, but they don’t event plan to start shooting till next January, so there’s going [...]

TED Session 1: Juan Enriquez, P.W. Singer…

February 4, 2009

The theme is REBOOT.
1. Futurist Juan Enriquez
First, the economy.
Leverage = bad.
You have to stand behind currencies.
We must banish entitlement.
Only 18% of the U.S. federal budget is discretionary.
Punchlines coming from Flickr and Photobucket pics — hard to get down in writing.
Cells have quick development curve then level off.
Biological tissue engineering — stem cell research — [...]