for terric notes from the conference, pls see Jon Lebkowsky's blog http://weblogsky.com/2010/02/21/tedx-austin-notes/
Similar to small is the new big. There is a Chinese belief that you can never see the whole dragon because it is too big. These are talks that rethought small in ways that help define the big problem.
Philip and Donna Berber: village based solutions to dragon sized problems.
Doug Ulman: profitablity of nonprofits
Chris Mueller: personal genomics, what does it look like and why we will all care.
Chris Shipley: Fortune 500? fugghedaboudit...small business in the aggregate is the real economic dragon.
Turk and Christi Pipkin Nobelity Project: their films help all of us visualize the big picture of global challenges
Janet Maykus: connection and loneliness on a societal scale
Rip Esselstyn: Our mainstream food culture is radically unhealthy and killing us.
Mark Rolston on the convergence of human and computer. Would you give up an eye???
Richard Garriott: spaceman. Our journey to multiplantary existence has already begun, first stop good old market dynamics.
John Philip Santos: a poets take on the human element behind the DNA science, it points us back to our shared humanity.
Steven Tomlinson on the integrated worklife: show up, don't discard, lead with what you love
Mark McKinnnon: perspective on what matters.
Carrie Contey, Ph.D, on the rhythm of our creativity and the importance of the pause.
These are ideas that will require a fundamental shift of some sort from entrenched institutions/interests, or innovative workarounds for same.
Rip Esselstyn vs. the food industry, big ag and the FDA
Chris Mueller and the technical computing challenges to making personal genomics accessible to the masses.
Dr. William Merrell and the Ike Dike: why protecting Galveston and Houston from large hurricanes is a matter of national security
Robert D Hunt: converting abandoned oil wells to 24/7 sources of renewable energy.
Philip and Donna Berber: new framework for comprehensive development
Doug Ulman: "non-profits" are most profitable
Chris Shipley: defining american business by small businesses, not big corps.
Rip Esselstyn: our mainstream food culture is radically unhealthy and killing us.
Daniel Pink: this was an archived talk from Big TED, but still...Businesses are wrong in their motivational approach to employees. The carrot and the stick are so 20th century. I want a ROWE!