Ideas Change Everything — and What’s Next for TED | Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell | TED

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April 9, 2024

TED is on a mission to discover and champion the ideas that will shape tomorrow. Reflecting on the evolution of that mission, TED’s Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell cast a visionary gaze on the organization’s future — including a revamped tagline, a renewed emphasis on debate and the launch of an exciting new conference — and explore the indispensable role of ideas in navigating societal challenges and fostering global innovation. Learn more about TED’s enduring legacy, its path forward for the decades ahead and how you can join us in sparking a brighter future.

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@seanocean5570

April 9, 2024 at 2:33 pm

Hallelujah ????

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@eugistudio

April 9, 2024 at 2:33 pm

e u g i s t u d i o

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@eugistudio

April 9, 2024 at 2:34 pm

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@sukoonkitalashmein4792

April 9, 2024 at 2:34 pm

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@girl.anachronism5639

April 9, 2024 at 2:38 pm

Norman Finkelstein is elite

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@Mohitkumarsb

April 9, 2024 at 2:44 pm

How many people watch this video from India please like now

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@DanaTodd

April 9, 2024 at 3:40 pm

Exciting new changes afoot, congratulations on 40 years of impact!

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@RobDeity

April 9, 2024 at 3:55 pm

TED, an organization that only shares the ideas of wealthy individuals, says “the fall of communism and spread of western thinking is optimistic.” AND “all the great things we have came thought venture capitalists”… fucking YIKES

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@josholunlade

April 9, 2024 at 4:14 pm

TED is 40 ❤. Cheers to many more ideas filled years ????

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@dimitrigilchrist5262

April 9, 2024 at 4:23 pm

That’ll be a great format. Lead by example…

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@igaomonstrao5995

April 9, 2024 at 4:49 pm

GINIUS IDEA

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@scatton61

April 9, 2024 at 5:02 pm

It used to be brilliant. More Technology and Design would be great….

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@dakotaiv

April 9, 2024 at 5:20 pm

I love the concept of ideas shared from different perspectives leading to shared points and acceptance of views that differ. I am hopeful for that type of open dialogue and would love to see that type of collaboration. I fear that Ted will lean into censorship of ideas that don’t fit your ideal “ideas”. Ted has demonstrated that tendency in the recent past.

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- @MeanOldLady
  
  April 11, 2024 at 1:48 am
  
  They demonstrated it again & again by irrelevant, divisive topics that only fracture the citizenry & enable the rich, political tyrants!
  
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@workofheartllc

April 9, 2024 at 6:28 pm

Thought I’d make it through at least half this one, Ted is dead they are paid for propaganda puppets such a bummer I used to look forward to TedTalks daily

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@workofheartllc

April 9, 2024 at 6:29 pm

Cheers to the real intellectuals, you know youre smart when every education channel makes you roll your eyes

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@manoelgomes9319

April 9, 2024 at 6:48 pm

40 years, congratulations, thanks for help people learn English and concerns about climate change

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@neetudeol4166

April 9, 2024 at 8:47 pm

Congratulations for 40 years completing and getting new ideas for people

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@marcalimarian

April 10, 2024 at 12:00 am

I’m very intrigued and hopeful for the new direction. Id like to suggest a similar live format to twitch or even twitch platform itself, since it is already well developed and battle tested. Based on my thinking of what goes on in live discussions and chats, is even more dynamic and truth finding, and the future, of course depending on the guests and audience and moderator participation and and mental framing of the purpose of the conversation. It even more powerful than pure video. Something that could be tested with a small private audience to iron out the details first, etc.

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@ulyanamomotova04

April 10, 2024 at 1:46 am

I’m 19 and I absolutely love TED ❤

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- @MeanOldLady
  
  April 11, 2024 at 1:49 am
  
  Wait until you’re 30 & realize how stupid TED proapganda truly is once you get some life experience under your belt.
  Even better, go read The Gulag Archipelago which will clearly demonstrate how evil these puppets of the “Ministry of Truth” truly are.
  
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@IndigoWhiskey

April 10, 2024 at 4:42 am

actually had any ideas implemented? cuz every ted talk ive seen basically detailed what was going to get systematically ignored.
bill gate’s presentation on viral pandemics vulnerability spings to mind.
all well and good hosting talks, utterly pointless if none of you are listening.

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- @MeanOldLady
  
  April 11, 2024 at 1:51 am
  
  “Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo.” – W. H. Auden
  That’s what TED & the lamestream media are all about. They don’t want actual solutions. The problems divide the people to keep them from overthrowing the tyrants causing all of the problems – the entire democrat party since it was formed back in 1828 has been nothing but evil for this country.
  
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@tehdii

April 10, 2024 at 5:59 am

When I found TED back in 2005/6 I was glued to my computer for three days. Me and my friends experienced the same. I only tremble if someone will find TED today…

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@louchieamartinez6878

April 11, 2024 at 12:21 pm

I discovered Ted talks when I was in highschool back in 2012 and I started watching videos during my lunch breaks at school. Fast forward it’s 2024. I’m 12 years older and still watching. ???? I wish to attend one of the conferences in the future.

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@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

April 11, 2024 at 5:08 pm

Ted has meant so much in my professional and personal life. I first came in 1998. I built my businesses and my creative ideas and the venues where I shared them because of Ted. Now, with more than 1 million subscribers on my YouTube channel actively engaged, I looked back to Ted in the years I was there for the provocative people and ideas I encountered. Thank you.

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