This week the TED Conference took place in Long Beach, California. TED, as you know, is the “mother” of all TEDx-events around the world. The theme for this year was “What The World Needs Now”. Earlier this week we pointed to some speeches of the TED Conference that were taking place this week. Here are some more speakers from day 2:
Session 4: Reason
- Michael Specter: “You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”
- Sam Harris: “Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering?”
- Kirk Citron looks for news stories that will matter in 100 years.
- Graham Hill unveils “Weekday Veg,” a middle-ground between vegetarianism and meat-eating.
- Elizabeth Pisani: “As citizens of the world, we use our votes to stop politicians doing stupid things to spread HIV.”
- Nicholas Christakis: “We form networks because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs.”
Session 5: Provocation
- Valerie Plame Wilson (Former CIA operative) calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.”
- Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 hrs. But I can’t read to you anything they said.”
- Kevin Bales: Ask ourselves: Are we willing to live in a world of slavery?
Session 6: Invention
- Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.”
- David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.”
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas demoed augmented reality based on Seadragon.
- To fight malaria, Nathan Myhrvold zaps mosquitos with a green laser. As he says: “We invent for fun, profit and humanity.”
Session 7: Breakthrough
- Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity.
- Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe?
- Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu is, HIV makes it look like the Rock of Gibraltar.”
- Rachel Armstrong talks about creating carbon-zero buildings.
- Mark Roth: Doctors have a saying that you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.
- Erick Tseng demos the Nexus One.
And … thank you Google for providing us with a Nexus One 
Click here to view all reports from TED 2010.
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