M Rees 2005 @ TED

a distant star known as KIC 8462852

https://www.ted.com/talks/tabetha_boyajian_the_most_mysterious_star_in_the_universe

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/strange-star-likely-swarmed-by-comets

JOI ITO @ TEC

Interesting idea.
Now-ist rather than futurist.

Compass over map.
Deploy or die.

The MIT media lab director.

TED elon_musk

http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spacex_solarcity.html

Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.