This years TED sounded really cool, sounded cool from reading about it from the people that went. Watch this video to see whats its all about. Can’t wait for these speaker videos to be on Ted Talks.

Architect/Designer, Philippe Starck: “I believe in general that my job is absolutely useless; but now, after Carolyn and these guys, I feel like shit”.

Statistician, Hans Rosling: “Bring me my sword!” (Rosling is a serious demographer but he is also – another deadly serious activity – one of the few sword-swallowers active in Sweden, and he ends his speech swallowing a Swedish bayonette).

Computer scientist, Jeff Han: “We basically have to un-teach people what they have learned so far about computing, and convince them that they can use several fingers, that several people can work on the screen at once”.

MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli: “I’m Italian, and in Italy design is normal.”

For a great laugh, read Wil Shipley’s account of the four days.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 8:27 pm and is filed under Design, Technology, WWW.