Your quite welcome Alex!
I was recommended for membership and subsequently applied during my time in school. A professor of mine happened to have the ear of William McDonough who came to talk to our Intro to Industrial Design class. I ended up having a conversation with him later that included my thoughts on how disingenuous I felt recycling to be at the time. It seemed to me that it would be much better if what we recycled was being used for the same exact thing it had been used for when it began life. Little did I know McDonough was in the process of finishing a book with a friend of his on the same subject. The conversation proved very enlightening for both of us and he recommend to my professor that I apply for a TED conferance membership (which I held provisionally as a student until I graduated, sadly, I no longer have it). I am sure thanks to McDonough, I was there in 1998 when Billy Graham spoke and it was quite amazing to be a part of some of the conversations that happened afterwards...

I consider my self very lucky to have attended TED. It was 8 days of my life that are some of the most influential I may ever experience. A membership then was about $4,000. Now I think it is higher, but the hard part is getting one. I am very glad that they post some of the talks now. I wish they posted them all.


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Thanks for posting this! I never heard of TED until now and still have to figure out exactly what it is/means, but this post has given me the curiosity to check out that video and look into it further. What I've seen so far looks kind of intriguing!

By the way, I just read that the TED conferences are invitation only. How did you get yours?