Garth recommended the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus short talks, performances and evening events). In 2005, an additional conference, TEDGlobal, was inaugurated. It’s held every other year, in a different location, focusing on a different theme.

TED brings in the best of the best, like Sergey Brin from Google, to speak to the wealthiest of the wealthy.

But when technical difficulties stopped the Brin presentation the other day, a heckler jumped up from the audience:

… He riffed about a new Apple product called the “iWhy?” and a few seconds later said, “I have just one question about the British royal family: All that money and no dental plan,” which got a lot of laughs and a few sympathetic nods toward the BBC presenter sitting behind him (who appeared to have perfectly fine dental hygiene).

He didn’t spare panelist Brin and Google, noting that if you walk into Google you see everyone in front of their computer sitting on exercise balls, “which I think is how they’re hatching new employees.” …

Robin Williams Saves the Day at TED When Tech Fails – Wired

I’ve subscribed to the TED blog.

TED themes – official home page