What: Ted is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Evironment, Design.
How: The annual conferences in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Oxford bring together the worlds most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
Why: why not?
Here is a talk from Dave Eggers accepting his 2008 TED Prize. He talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open one of their own.
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