[Editor’s note for full disclosure: TED has granted Worldchanging significant funding and acted as a primary sponsor for the site. In addition, they have granted free admittance to several Worldchanging team members for their annual conference, and Worldchanging founders Alex Steffen and Jamais Cascio have both been speakers there.] I recently had the good fortune to screen an advance copy of The Future We Will Create, an interesting documentary that is worth catching. Filmed by actress and activist Daphne Zuniga, its notable because the 74-minute film records the 2006 TED Conference, an extraordinary four-day phenomenon. The long-standing conference maintained mainstream anonymity for almost two decades before the likes of Richard Branson and Bill Clinton illuminated the conference with their celebrity aura. I found it interesting because, while TED is among the most elite conferences, it has evolved in a manner unlike most of its peers. While some have encouraged bloggers to bang out real-time coverage of their proceedings, TED deserves praise for doing far more, actually opening its vault of intellectual property through various measures. Its TED Talks program provides access to some of its most provocative content to anyone with a mouse and networked computer. It recently launched a… (more)
(Posted by Jonathan Greenblatt in Communications and Networking at 10:05 AM)