Ideas are connected

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* The TED Conference, held annually in Long Beach, is still the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend — indeed, the event sells out a year in advance — and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. 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. It shouldn't work, but it does. It works because all of knowledge is connected. Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.
* Bestiario is one of the leading studios when it comes to the theme of data visualization. Over the last three years, they have used diverse business models that have always ended up at exactly the same point: the relationship between dogma and product.
P.D.: these days, Barcelona meets Artfutura*, a very inspirational festival.
* Since January 1990, ArtFutura, the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity of reference in Spain, has explored the most interesting projects and ideas that have come up on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation.
Its activities include conferences, workshops, interactive installations, exhibitions and live performances.