
TED2019
Bigger than us
April 15-19, 2019 Pacific Time (US & Canada; GMT -07:00)
For TED2019, we’re joining the search for deeper meaning. We’ll be exploring technologies that evoke wonder and tantalize with superhuman powers, mind-bending science that will drive the future, mind-expanding creativity and most of all, the inspiring possibilities that happen when we ask what ideas are truly worth fighting for, worth living for.
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Session 7: Possibility
- Judith Jamison0:08:33Judith Jamison uses dance as a medium for honoring the past, celebrating the present and fearlessly reaching into the future.
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater0:19:22Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled 1958 performance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance.
- Rob Reid0:25:56Author and entrepreneur Rob Reid writes speculative fiction for Random House.
- Nick Bostrom0:43:52Nick Bostrom asks big questions: What should we do, as individuals and as a species, to optimize our long-term prospects? Will humanity’s technological advancements ultimately destroy us?
- Ella Al-Shamahi1:14:27Ella Al-Shamahi is a palaeoanthropologist specializing in fossil hunting in caves in unstable, hostile and disputed territories. In her spare time, she's a stand-up comic.
- Victor Vescovo1:31:28In 2019, Victor Vescovo could become the first person to have climbed to the highest point of all the world's continents as well as descended to the deepest reaches of all its oceans, including the Challenger Deep.
- Hannah Gadsby1:41:25Hannah Gadsby skewers the straight world's dismissal and outright hostility toward the LGBTQ community in her stand-up sets, stage performances and television shows.