TED8

The TED Conference, 18-21 Feb 1998

TED Conferences was conceived in 1984 with an observation about the nature of late 20th Century communications: Three primary communications-driven businesses/professional areas in our society were emerging, merging and evolving together in ways undreamed of just a few short years before. These three core disciplines all facilita TED the development of new ways of seeing and learning. New ways of transforming information and conveying ideas. New ways of understanding our environment, our society and our selves. TED stands for the triad of these subject areas (Technology, Entertainment and Design) that were reshaping the context of our world when these conferences began and which continue to do so today.

TED is the theme that has shaped my work for the past 35 years. For several memorable days each year I stage an eclectic conference of remarkable thinkers and doers to talk about connections & patterns. These TED presentations are unfailingly interesting. Some are amusing and entertaining; others are positively enlightening. And here's the best part: the people who attend the meetings are every bit as fascinating as those making the presentations. The result is 750 enriched minds in a highly charged energy state. I bombard this critical mass with high-intensity information and the explosive ideas that result cause aftershocks that shake the foundations of today's information industries. (An example: In the wake of the Orwellian 1984 advertising campaign announcing the original Macintosh, the Mac made its first public appearance at TED. The revolutionary Java programming language, the now-ubiquitous Photoshop software, and the publishing phenomenon Wired Magazine were given their debut at TED.)

So that's the formula: dozens of brilliant speakers interacting with hundreds of tuned-in attendees about the fast-changing world of information.

–Richard Saul Wurman, 1998 /via

Video quality has degraded over the years. But the content is still breathtaking. Watch the TED8 sessions below.

Day 1

19-Feb1998

  1. Hazel Miller: Opening song
  2. Richard Saul Wurman: Day 1 Welcome
  3. Forrest Sawyer on Iraq
  4. Nicholas Negroponte on the press selling numbers
  5. Peter Bergman
  6. Richard Meier & John Walsh
  7. Julie Taymor
  8. Aimee Mullins
  9. Ann Winblad
  10. Peter Cochrane
  11. Kim Polese
  12. Janet Baker interviewed by Walter Mossberg
  13. Ozzie Osbourne interviwed by Walter Mossberg
  14. Crowd Interaction
  15. Bill Bradley
  16. Michael Schrage
  17. Jim Steinmeyer
  18. George Litterst
  19. David Cope
  20. Tom Hadju
  21. Ruth Brown & Bobby Forresteru

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