TED Prize
I've always resented the masturbatory idea of
TED, but apparently they're trying something
new this year:
...As if to underscore a new other-directed definition of happiness, Anderson, who has funneled the roughly $1 million proceeds from the conference - formerly a profit-seeking venture - into various worthy causes, announced the creation of the TED Prize, "an award program like nothing else out there," in which three "remarkable people" will be granted three wishes, presumably to be fulfilled by zillionaire, clout-heavy and intellectually supercharged TEDsters.
As a backup, each winner will also be awarded $100,000. The plan is for the winners, who will be communally nominated and announced later this year, to unveil their wishes at next year's conference, where they will be anointed as "the most perfect TEDsters we can find," Anderson said. They will also be given a three-year pass to TED (worth $12,000).
Let's hope idealism wins out over cutesy.
* Ray, 3/11/2004 10:22:17 AM
