Carolyn Jack
Editor and CEO, Geniocity.comA project of The Genius Group LLC
Creative Nerve
TED for your head
If you don’t already, you need to know about TED. The acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.
According to its posted history, TED started in 1984 (fateful year) as a conference exploring those three fields. Since then, it’s grown into a global community based around lectures held at TED’s annual conference in Long Beach, Calif., with a website that offers for public view the podcasts of these 18-minute lectures, called TEDTalks, by some of the most amazingly creative people you’ll ever encounter.
TED also hosts conferences in different countries, awards a fascinating TED Prize and has a new Fellows Program for innovators around the world.
The TED site does in podcasts what Geniocity.com aims to do (better and better as we grow, I hope) in news and opinion writing, images, interactivity and consumer access to original creative goods: spread the word about creativity and the future that’s in the making right now for all of us in labs, studios and brains around the world.
The video of extraordinary author Elizabeth Gilbert that I posted yesterday, which had just been featured on YouTube, was a TEDTalk. And there’s a lot more where that came from, at www.ted.com. For sure don’t miss the one by MIT graduate student David Merrill about his computerized toy blocks that think, Siftables.
