Apologies for missing much of the morning. I gave a lecture in my friend Munro Price’s program at the Annenberg Summer program in Oxford. I’ll… Read More »TEDGlobal: Jessica Jackley’s new project, Profounder

David Bismark has a very clever idea for making elections more transparent and verifiable. He explains that elections are incredibly hard to carry out –… Read More »TEDGlobal: Transforming voting, and education

Anne Quito tells us that she discovered a Warhol – a signed screen print – which she’d walked past in her office for seven years… Read More »TEDGlobal: Growing away from styrofoam

Vietnamese/Australian entrepreneur Tan Le tells us that our communications with machines have always involved explicit commands. Human communication is much more subtle – we communicate… Read More »TEDGlobal: Tan Le reads our minds and moves our robots

The final session of day 2 at TEDGlobal 2010, Different by Design, starts with a strange, ethereal multimedia performance by Miwa Matreyek. Using animations, music,… Read More »TEDGlobal: Neil Gershenfeld promises us a replicator

John Hardy tells us he grew up in a small village in Canada as an undiagnosed dyslexic. He was the little kid in the village… Read More »TEDGlobal: John Hardy’s Green School