A couple of weeks ago, one of my partners at Zauber suggested to visit TED.com, a site whose objective is to broacast through the Internet great and inspiring talks held during the last years by the most important thinkers and doers worlwide. Among its themes, TED.com features talks about Techonology, Business, Science, Culture, Global Issues (such us poverty), Art. I personally liked best those related with Technology, Science and Business but found indredibly interesting talks about Global Issues too. Every week, at least two new talks are posted on the site, each of them with an average duration of 15-20 minutes.
The first weeked I had the time to take a deep insight on this site, I found myself watching talk after talk for nearly two hours. I had the chance to listen to Jeff Bezzos, the founder and CEO of Amazon at a talk in February 2003 exposing his view about innovation on the Internet and comparing the dot-com boom to the Gold Rush and , the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at a talk in February 2004 commenting on how Google works and how their products are developed. But so far the best and most inspiring talk I watched was one by Iqbal Quadir about his venture in Bangladesh to help fight poverty and his belief that businesses and private investment are a better tool than humaniritarian help to poor countries. I really recommend this talk, which I am also embedding.
Try this site and tell me what you think...maybe you will realize that you no longer need cable TV if you have an Internet broadband connection (well...I guess most of you are already feeling that, don't you?).
