For 25 years, Chris Anderson has been a little wit, wisdom, and sometimes it means sticky Shine. Because he took over the reins of a tiny but influential annual conference “Technology, Entertainment and Design” in 2000, he built it into a well -known, if they sometimes mock, the conglomerate of “Ideas worth sharing”, which includes a strongly trading YouTube channel, YouTube channel, thousands of local assemblies called TEDX and the archive over a quarter of a million conversations, including Elon Musk, Monika Lewinsky and of course Bono. There are TED podcasts, a TED radio program on NPR and an educational program called TED-ED.
Now he wants to give it all out.
Today is By announcing his intention Setting up from the NON -PROFIT organization and handing over the entire caboodle anyone who has the best idea for what to do with it. “It seems that this is Bonkers’s idea, except for everything that has ever happened to Ted, since I supervised it happened when we abandoned something,” he told me only to Wired. “We gave the content and this made a viral ted. We gave the brand in the form of a TEDX license. When you give someone control over something, you give him motivation to make yourself. In the next chapter there are amazing things that Ted can do. And I think it’s time to try the same again. Let go and surprise. “
Anderson says he has not been burned out. But 25 years is a long time. He does not earn on transactions – and so he is luxurious, from conducting technological publications in the 1980s and 1990s – and he never received remuneration at TED. Despite the belief that Ted has passed his first position, he says that the organization is in good shape. While membership fell during a pandemic, the company’s finances have now regained. His The latest financial application It reports about the balance of about $ 100 million, and Anderson claims that TED has $ 25 million in cash reserves. He adds that places (most often sold after USD 12,500 for pop) for the next weekly conference, at a specially built theater of 1500 places in Vancouver, British Columbia, as always are sold out. Altman itself It will be in the building!
Do you want it? Check your bank account. Anderson wants someone with cash to move Ted to a modern level. Who could be? A dissatisfied default default can be superlination, which he prefers to hear from marine guardians, evolutionary anthropologists and “global souls”-all speakers on TED 2025-a do not meet in Mar-a-Lago. Instead, Anderson provides a university, one of the immense philanthropic organizations, the main media store, a city looking for the brain version of the Fringe festival, and even a great technology company or AI. (Imagine how they were the speakers will welcome their conversations used to train the next version of Gemini or Copilot.) It breaks down that the collective decentralized autonomous organization-gray of many hundreds of Teds organized by Blockchain-Might maintains the current community. This idea seems too far -reaching, but some of the conversations can be found on the red circle of the TED stage. Surprise him.
“There is an opportunity to provide knowledge far and wide, but thanks to our current resources we cannot do it solo,” he says. “I just want to open a tent and see who can introduce my own version of this vision and resources to make it true. And some of me just loves a funny page of a surprise. I really don’t know what will happen. “
Ted-Steters will not be either, and this will certainly cause anxiety. From the 1990s I have been taking part in TED conferences and turn off when an eccentric architect named Richard Saul Wurman led an event at the Diminutive Theater in Monterey, California. As a participant in TED, Anderson was so enchanted for the first time that he bought a franchise and expanded his audience from 550 people in the theater to millions, thanks to which the term “Ted Talk” in a stereotype for better or worse. When I participated, I wrote “Ted”, which Anderson usually accepts a good humor, except for time in 2009, when I criticized him for having not much satisfaction with the economic crisis. (He answered on the stage