Here’s the thing, I can’t write fast enough to make all this make this all make sense, so what I’m going to do is post my raw notes from each ses­sion. Crazy, I know, but hope­fully it gives you at least a feel for what’s going on. When I get time, I’ll go through and add more links and detail.

Ask ques­tions if you want more detail.

Juan Enriquez

  • The econ­omy (elephant)
  • When you’re danc­ing in the flames, what’s next?
  • Banks over-​​leveraged (Citibank 47x)
  • Manda­tory spend­ing now hits 100% at 2017 (maybe sooner)
  • Ban­ish entitlements
  • Work longer (2−4 more years)
  • Reduce mil­i­tary by 3% pa
  • Limit bor­row­ing
  • 225 largest Japan­ese com­pa­nies worth 25% of 18 years ago
  • “As we cut we must also grow”
  • Louis L’Amour — end… beginning
  • Skin cells rebooted to stem cells — you can make any body part
  • Oscar Pis­to­rius — com­bine engi­neer­ing, robot­ics, humans — even­tu­ally unbeatable
  • Ears now — soon bet­ter than normal
  • Eyes begin­ning
  • There will be a new species of hominids — before we die — take direct con­trol (the ulti­mate reboot)

jane@​ted.​com — TED scribe, ask her ques­tions and Chris will ask the speakers.

P.W. Singer

  • Mil­i­tary tech
  • Pack­bot
  • Real­ity is that robots are now doing mun­dane tasks but will move to crit­i­cal life and death decision
  • 5300 drones
  • 12K unmanned ground units — Model T
  • Moore’s Law work­ing on mil­i­tary robots
  • We are in a rev­o­lu­tion in war
  • Affect the who of fight­ing at its most fun­da­men­tal level
  • War­fare now open source
  • War from afar — cost­less war
  • War porn
  • More PTSD in remote dis­tance fight­ers — it’s like a video game and we don’t have the same cog­ni­tive or con­science fil­ters. 12 hour shifts and home for dinner.
  • How do we rethink the rules of war?

Yves Behar and Forrest

  • Serendip­ity and collaboration
  • Met at TED last year
  • Mis­sion 1 motorcycle

Com­cast broad­band ad — shaved pan­ther rab­bit with jets — http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​v​z​x​G​y​t​y​8​0PM

Thomas Dolby

  • music aids “digestion”

Nat­u­rally 7

  • UK charts this week
  • Acapella
  • Beat­box­ing as a seri­ously amaz­ing art form
  • Vocal play
  • Wall of sound

David Han­son

  • Robot­ics
  • Freaky robot faces that look human
  • Con­ver­sa­tional response

Bill Gates

  • 2nd time at TED
  • Reboot­ing philanthropy
  • “Hope I’m not in the Reboot sec­tion because some­times you need to reboot your PCs.”
  • “Any tough prob­lem, I think, can be solved.”
  • Malaria con­trol
    • Bed nets and DDT reduce deaths by 50%
    • Foun­da­tion back­ing drug research — phase 3 trials
  • Great teach­ers
    • Make oppor­tu­nity equal for all stu­dents, not just top 20%
    • Over 30% drop out rate in US — 50% in minorities
    • Higher chance of going to jail than com­plet­ing 4yr degree in US if in low income bracket
    • Best teach­ers not the most senior ones
    • Mas­ters’ degree has nearly no mea­sur­able effect
    • Past per­for­mance only truly sig­nif­i­cant measure
    • KIPP pro­gram — dynamic, engaging
  • US$3.8B from Gates Foun­da­tion in 2009, half on global health initiatives
  • As you improve health there is direct cor­re­la­tion with reduc­tion in pop­u­la­tion growth as par­ents feel they do not need to repro­duce so many chil­dren who *might* sur­vive to adulthood
  • Oppor­tu­ni­ties com­pound (Glad­well and Gates) — luck and skill combine
  • Don’t opti­mise for your epitaph

Ben Zan­der

  • Con­duc­tor Boston Philharmonic
  • Happy Birth­day to YOU
  • We have dis­tin­guished possibility.
  • What will you do next time you sing “Happy Birth­day”? Or indeed next time in any­thing?
  • You can choose to get up and conduct.
  • Res­ig­na­tion. Anger. Possibility.
  • TED chooses POSSIBILITY
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