I love TED. And I love all the stuff that's somehow related to TED. As I found out, TED is only one of the many conferences that attempt to be interdisciplinary and all-encompassing of the many developments that are ongoing in the world today. Inviting all the high-powered people, thinkers and doers. And I just recently found out that the creator of TED created another conference called EG - Entertainment Gathering.
This amuses me, of course, and after seeing the German/European version of TED - DLD, and a freer version of TED - BIL... There are... many conferences out there, but so far, there isn't one for Asia. Then of course, there's Kelvin Quee's InteresThink, but he hasn't got the money or the impact, which is kinda... sad.
There definitely should be a TED-like event for TED, where the leading global thinkers and doers, or even Asian thinkers and doers, come together to share developments in their society and technology. I can think of inviting the Asian Nobel Laurates, Asian cultural icons, Japanese Anime artists and directors, writers such as Murakami, bringing them all together under one roof. And of course, Asian musicians. And other leading academics in Asia, or even Russia. And then even inviting South American, even Australian...
It might not be as high-class as TED, but it would be truly representative of the kind of clout and influence that Asia should have, in our time, to have another perspective. And I can already think of people like Li Ka Shing, NUS, ChannelNewsAsia as sponsors or something like that. Or even ask some rich sheik from Dubai or Abu Dhabi or Doha to sponsor as well. How to remain corporate and national neutrality when you have so many competing influences... I think that would be the biggest challenge of such an Asian conference.
Oh! And invite Hans Rosling too!
I thin the issue with such a conference is not 'if it would be done', but 'when it will be done'. Eventually, people with genuine power and influence will make it happen, unless RSW - the creator of TED and others like it, step up and do it...
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This amuses me, of course, and after seeing the German/European version of TED - DLD, and a freer version of TED - BIL... There are... many conferences out there, but so far, there isn't one for Asia. Then of course, there's Kelvin Quee's InteresThink, but he hasn't got the money or the impact, which is kinda... sad.
There definitely should be a TED-like event for TED, where the leading global thinkers and doers, or even Asian thinkers and doers, come together to share developments in their society and technology. I can think of inviting the Asian Nobel Laurates, Asian cultural icons, Japanese Anime artists and directors, writers such as Murakami, bringing them all together under one roof. And of course, Asian musicians. And other leading academics in Asia, or even Russia. And then even inviting South American, even Australian...
It might not be as high-class as TED, but it would be truly representative of the kind of clout and influence that Asia should have, in our time, to have another perspective. And I can already think of people like Li Ka Shing, NUS, ChannelNewsAsia as sponsors or something like that. Or even ask some rich sheik from Dubai or Abu Dhabi or Doha to sponsor as well. How to remain corporate and national neutrality when you have so many competing influences... I think that would be the biggest challenge of such an Asian conference.
Oh! And invite Hans Rosling too!
I thin the issue with such a conference is not 'if it would be done', but 'when it will be done'. Eventually, people with genuine power and influence will make it happen, unless RSW - the creator of TED and others like it, step up and do it...
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