TED: Riveting Talks by Remarkable People is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. 

We recently found about this group and the site TED.com, when a talk about Sixth Sense, a cool combination of technologies that connect the physical world with the world of data,  was sent to library staff. The talks given at the annual conferences are limited to  a short number of minutes. Their website is a collection of the best of these talks, given by inventors, scholars and performers. They are inspiring, influential and often profound. 

Check out the website. There are many fascinating people to hear and lots of ideas to think about.  As just one example, here is a great talk by Ryan Lobo about photography.

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