TED Link
This week, TED website released another amazing and inspirational talk. To start off, what is TED? It stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. The TED Conference, held annually in Monterey, is the heart of TED. More than a thousand people attend and the event sells out a year in advance. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter pieces of content, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience.
Recently, these presentations have been made available online. I make a point of it to watch at least some of them because the people who present have such wealth of knowledge and insight to offer that I always learn something new.
For todays entry I would like to comment on the talk by Stephen Hawking, a world renown living physicist. His research and contributions have greatly contributed to our understanding of the universe. In his talk he seemed confident that if within the next 100 years we do not send out a mission to colonize another planet, our race will become extinct. This is a very powerful message from someone who obviously thinks about these things on the daily basis. It seems like the stuff from fiction books. However, seeing our numerous environmental problems and how they may potentially make this planet unable to support our race, colonization of other worlds is something we should start seriously considering.
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