Introduction to TED

            TED is a nonprofit organization set on spreading ideas.  TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, which refers to the topics that TED was first dedicated to.  Since TED's founding in 1984 it has spread to cover a wide range of topics that are given in 18 minute or less presentations.  TED has grown to a point where they can say they are truly spreading ideas with having over one billion views as of November 13th, 2012.  

          

  TED events bring speakers together who come from across all different types of fields and offer many different ideas.  Some of the recent talks I have watched cover topics of IQ through out the generations, changing how schooling should work, design, and even pick pocketing.   TED also brings many famous speakers such as David Blaine, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Clinton to spread their ideas.  

            My first experience with TED was seeing it in the app store on my iPad.  I opened up the details and it seemed interesting enough for me to download it, plus it was free.  I watched several videos on it that were interesting but at about 18 minutes a peace I got bored with it.  This assignment got me interested in TED again.  I've been watching several TED videos and been really enjoying them.  I have a list that I want to watch but at 18 minutes a peace it will take me a long time to watch.  I will talk about a couple of my favorites in other posts. 

            TED has become very significant in the media world because it has created a place that people can come and communicate ideas from all sorts of backgrounds, and spread them to millions of people.  Sometimes these ideas are nothing more than entertainment but others are ideas that if acted upon could significantly change the world, a few of my favorites of this type are, "The Levitating Superconductor," which shows how vehicles in the future could hover and have zero energy loss, and Bill Clinton's, "My Wish: Rebuilding Rwanda."

In the 29 years TED has been around they have uploaded more than 1,500 videos, and has had over one billion views.  TED is available all over the world, and works hard on translating there talks into more then 40 languages.  TED has spread phenomenal ideas throughout the world, that it could not have done without the mass media outlet.