the TED conference is really the best conference I have ever been to. The only downside is, I had to skip the planed ski-trip with Daniela and dearest friends of ours to Wildhaus, Switzerland. TED is like the DAVOS of the Internet and New Media. The place where 800 thought leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists come together. You hear the latest ideas in Technology, Entertainment, and Design. This unique breath of content, and the quality of the people who deliver, are what makes TED special. After the four days, I gained an understanding of how my own work fits into the larger web of knowledge. It’s invitation only event by the legendary Chris Andersen.
I had the chance to speak to extraordinary people like, Sergey Brin & Larry Page of Google, former vice president Al Gore, Anthony Robbins, Jeff Bezos, Nicholas Negroponte, Meg Ryan, Tim Brown of IDEO, Dean Kamen, Burt Rutan to just name a few.
The speaker highlight was for sure Al Gore with his speech about the global climate crisis, best technology was multi-touch interaction display from Jeff Han, best activist was Majora Carter with her green Bronx initiative.
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TED2006: Wrap-up (and a cut-off namebadge)
TED2006 ended on Saturday with a beach party and lots of discussions about the many great (and ambitious) ideas that were expressed during the week, from Larry Brilliant’s plan for a global early-warning system to Peter Gabriel’s intention of using