Gero Miessenböck tells us he has a dopplegander – Dr. Gero from Dragonball Z. This sinister character has his skull removed and can control things… Read More »TEDGlobal: Gero Miessenböck wants to control our brains
Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International, warns us that our governance systems are failing us in the face of a globalized economy. We can… Read More »TEDGlobal: Peter Eigen and global transparency
Auret Van Heerden of the Fair Labor Association holds up a cellphone and tells us that the phone started its life with artisinal mines, run… Read More »TEDGlobal: Auret Van Heerden and bringing human rights into the global supply chain
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