http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninakix/4358914104/sizes/l/
more unique note-taking from TED found at http://youngandbrilliant.net/tagged/ted
(PS: TED = uberexpensive = elitism ... but that's okay (http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/14/the-elephants-in-the-room-at-ted/) )
and btw Sarah Silverman... genius... imo George Carlin* or Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks would be very proud of her creative attempt to kill creativity-killing bull@%&#: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/14/ted-organizer-trashes-speaker-fails-social-iq-test/ *especially Carlin, the master that he was of exposing linguistic bull@%&# :)
and yikes, that episode of X-Files with the time-traveller and the technique for freezing/unfreezing humans safely (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751211/) might not be so far into the future after all: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninakix/4350198039/sizes/l/in/photostream/
I've enjoyed many a TED talk... but THIS one, wow, it's definitely #1 when it comes to exciting visionary (in the area of [T]echnology)
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
It's almost like "Minority Report" concepts... but with a far more "human" direction and motivation -- moving away from the "man sitting behind or carrying or inputting/outputting with machine" idea of interaction, and instead it's True Integration between the digital and the material world. Fantastic stuff demo'd here. :)
...and this Danish architect certainly deserves "top 3" for the [D]esign category... WOW.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales.html