The super-hip New York architect launches into a brilliant review of the last 30 years of architecture, keeping a brisk pace pace to make the 18-minute format of the TED Conference. When he gets to the requisite biographical slide, the image of his teenage self is wearing a Camp Ramah T-shirt, entirely in Hebrew. A message hidden in plain sight.
The annual TED Conference, the original that spawned the viral phenomenon of TED Talks — altogether viewed online more than a billion times — and a global network of locally organized TEDx conferences, turned 30 this past week. The occasion was celebrated with a new, custom-designed pop-up theater at this year’s TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Though the speaker list changes every year, it’s never a surprise to see folks like Keren Elazari, an Israeli hacker and cyber-security expert; Moshe Safdie, the renowned architect; Larry Page, the CEO of Google; or Mark Ronson, the British DJ and rocker whose family name used to be Aaronson.
But like the architect’s T-shirt, it’s the unlikely stories and the underlying messages projecting from the TED stage that often catch me by surprise.
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