Vintage TED last night, Palo Alto posse (simulcast with NY)
Invite: “This event is exclusively for TEDsters who attended between 1994 and 2008. Like a high school reunion.” Cool that Jeff Bezos came and heard the vintage teddy bear that produces his iconic laugh. I got called on stage with a wig to imitate Ben Zander conducting us all in a sing-along. 🙂
Each photo has my notes from my favorite talks. And here are a couple more, sans photos…
Ken Robinson quoted Richard Feynman: “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” (I really like that one.)
John Sculley (who spoke at the 2nd TED): “Steve Jobs taught me you gotta zoom out and connect the dots. In 1985, Steve went into a depression and left Apple, as you all know. Alan Kay told me ‘Next time, we won’t have PARC. All of our tech came from PARC.’” (!)
Stephen Petranek gave an update on the top 10 ways the Earth could end and concluded “My number one concern is a large asteroid hitting Earth.” He showed a picture of Meteor Crater and said: “There was no sun for a year. Everything larger than a rabbit died.” https://flic.kr/p/cGHQKN
As for asteroid defense, “NASA is working on it, but very slowly.”
He ended with the Stephen Hawking quote: “We must go into space for the future of humanity. I don’t think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” (P.S. Hawking lowered that prediction to just 100 years before he died)
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