TEDTALKS: More Great Speakers

This is a collection of presentations at the annual TED conference. To TED’s credit, it is making this available to the “rest of us.” (Many thanks to Thomas Wenzl for bringing this to my attention.)

Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. The talks they deliver have had had such a great impact, we thought they deserved a wider audience. So now - with our sponsor BMW and production partner WNYC/New York Public Radio we’re sharing some of the most remarkable TED talks with the world at large. Each week, we’ll release a new talk, in audio and video, to download or watch online. For best effect, plan to listen to at least three, start to finish. They have a cumulative effect...

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Rick Warren

Pastor Rick Warren is author of The Purpose-Driven Life, which has sold 30 million copies worldwide. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 21:46)

Dan Dennett

Dan Dennett is a Tufts philosophy professor and cognitive scientist, most famous for his books, Consciousness Explained (1991) and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995). In this talk, he responds to the presentation by Pastor Rick Warren, taking issue with claims in his book, The Purpose-Driven Life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 25:29)

Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney is a comedian and playwright, performing here an excerpt from “Letting Go of God.” (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Joshua Prince-Ramus is architect of the Seattle Public Library and principal of REX (Ramus-Ella Architects). (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Al Gore

Al Gore, in his own words, “used to be the next President of the United States of America” but has since changed professions. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Majora Carter

Majora Carter is the Macarthur-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization dedicated to holistic community development, sponsoring projects that create jobs, protect the environment and bring beautiful green space to the inner city. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

David Pogue

David Pogue is the personal technology columnist for The New York Times, an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is father of the life-coaching industry. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

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Comments

[Karishma Anand]

Hi Guy,

I had been away from your blog for a while and came back to notice a brilliant new look and a great link to the TED speeches! Great stuff. Keep blogging!

[Adam Dudley]

Thanks for sharing such valuable resources!

Much appreciated!

[Andrew McWilliam]

Rick Warren had good stuff to say... amazing to see a hugely succesfull man give his wealth away without even touching a bit of it. In a leadership talk he mentioned elsewhere he mentioned he owned 2 suits... I like this attitude. Simple, generous, not greedy... about the world and what you can give to it not what you can take and how you can prosper.

[David Armano]

Sir Ken Robinson's monologue was profoundly inspiring. If you are interested in either creativity or education or both, you NEED to watch it.

I blogged about it a while back here:
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/06/is_creativity_t.html

[Brad Hutchings]

Oh John... You should see Rick Warren's church. They literally moved a mountain to construct it. It's about 2 miles up the hill from me. If I could be Rick Warren for a day, I would preach traffic safety, including being nice to runners and cyclists on Portola Parkway, signaling and glancing in your rear view before taking your Ford Exclamation (Extended version, NTTAWWT) from the right lane across 3 lanes of traffic to the left turn lane into Saddleback Church, and not entering an intersection after the light has been red for more than 2 seconds. I often wonder why the Lake Forest division of the OC Sheriff's Department doesn't set up a traffic enforcement area in the vicinity. They'd easily recoup the property tax money the property isn't generating for the city.

[reno]

What a great website !

Very funny to read you from where i live...Brussels (Belgium).

Best regards !

Cheers.

Reno

[John C. Randolph]

Wow, that Rick Warren guy is smooth. Of course, he's full of crap, but what a presentation!

-jcr

[Mike from Dubai]

unfortunately, I have not read your books

[Steve]

I don't know.

I've never been overly impressed with the speakers at TED. Are these really industry leaders or just talking heads?

[joaogabrieldelima]

P.S.: Your book is fantastic!

[mikey]

please watch Majora Carter. she speaks with so much passion & heart. just wonderful. oh & a great message too...

[joaogabrieldelima]

Dear Guy, I am Joao Gabriel De Lima, a Brazilian journalist. We talked in Stanford on Friday in SPPC, remember? I will be in San Francisco until Friday and I would like to interview you for an article about the culture of innovation for Epoca, a Brazilian equivalent of Newsweek Could it possible? Please e-mail me in joaogabrieldelima@gmail.com

Best,

Gabriel