TED Talks

Hello chaps!
Last night, I was luckily (finally) introduced to TED talks. A basic explanation from their website: 
"TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize."
I watched a TALK where Mick Ebeling and  a team including "anarchists" and "hackers" (to use the terms used by the speaker) worked together for years to create a means for people who were mostly paralysed - to communicate and draw! The design looks like this:

These very cool designers made the instructions of how one can make one on their own available on the website FREE OF CHARGE! All their time and effort; to make lives better, without profit as a motivator. WOW! 
Check out http://www.ted.com/talks for more TED talks!
To conclude his presentation; Mick said something along the lines of the following of certain questions we should ask ourselves:

If not now, then when?

If not me, then who?

I think those are questions that I would find quite difficult to ask myself without feeling like maybe I wasn't making the best use of my time on this planet...

Yours in deep contemplation, 

Mandy

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