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The Edge Billionaries' Dinner 1999
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The Annual Billionaires' Digerati Dinner [2.23.00] The Last Digerati Dinner [2.22.01] The Edge Annual Dinner [2.21.02] The Edge Science Dinner [2.27.03] The Edge Billionaries' Dinner 2004 [2.24.04] The Edge Dinner 2005 [2.22.05] The Edge Annual Dinner 2006 [2.27.06] The Edge Dinner 2007 [3.6.07] The Edge Billionaries' Dinner 2008 [2.25.08] San Francisco Science Dinner [7.28.08] THE EDGE DINNER 2009 TED: Readjusted For The 2009 Econalyspe [2.5.09] The Edge Billionaires' Dinner 2010: A New Age of Wonder [2.11.10] |
THE EDGE DINNER 2009 TED: Readjusted For The 2009 Econalyspe
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"John Brockman, a literary agent, is the shadowy figure at the top of the cyberfashion food chain."?? —Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How The Computer World Got This Way
The "Billionaires' Dinner" at TED: Readjusted for the 2009 Econalyspe By Kara Swisher Many years ago in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom, when working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal,BoomTown redubbed an annual dinner that book agent John Brockman threw ... called the "Millionaires' Dinner," but I renamed it the "Billionaires' Dinner."That was due to the frothy fortunes that had been made at the time by the Internet pioneers, from Amazon to AOL to eBay. Well, despite the economic meltdown, there were still a lot of billionaires in attendance at Brockman's most recent dinner last Thursday in Long Beach. Indeed, Brockman now calls the event the "Edge Dinner," after his lively Edge Web site, where he presides over a variety of eclectic online debates and discussions (in January, for example, the topic was: "DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH?"). Since I managed to miss the fete entirely (embarrassing confession: I fell dead asleep at 7 p.m. and did not wake until the next morning) and could not chronicle it, Brockman allowed me to post some photos from the event taken by him and by former Microsoft research guru and current intellectual property mogul Nathan Myhrvold. |
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Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures |
Jeff Skoll, Participant Media; Lori Park , Google |
Stewart Brand, Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts |
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Craig Venter, Synthetic Genomics |
Susan Dennett; Jean Case, Case Foundatrion |
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Bill Gates, Gates Foundation; Dean Kamen, Deka Research |
Juan Enriquez, Excel Medical Ventures; Danny Hillis, Applied Minds; Brian Cox, CERN |
Steve Case, Revolution Health; Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct; Peter Gabriel |
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Larry Page, Google; W. Daniel Hillis, Applied Minds |
Zack Bogue; Katinka Matson, edge.org |
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Stewart Brand; Craig Venter, Synthetic Genomics; Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct; Nick Prtizker |
Danny Hillis, Applied Minds; Richard Saul Wurman; John Brockman, edge.org |
Max Brockman, Brockman, Inc.; Jaron Lanier ; Marissa Mayer, Google; Nathan Wolfe, Stanford |
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Marissa Mayer, Google; Max Brockman, Brockman, Inc. |
Matt Groening, The Simpsons; Mickey Kaus, Slate |
Rodney Brooks, Heartland Robotics; Tony Fadell, Apple |
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Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Radar; Nick Pritzker |
Jacqui Safra; Jon Kamen, Radical Media |
Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Radar; Nick Pritzker; Yves Behar, FuseProject; Craig Venter, Synthetic Genomics |
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Larry Page, Google; Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins; Jaron Lanier |
Joi Ito, Creative Commons, Neotony; Kevin Kelly, kk.org |
Peter Gabriel; John Brockman, edge.org; Bill Gates, Gates Foundation |
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Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Radar; Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post |
Bill Gates, Gates Foundation; Lori Park , Google |
Nathan Wolfe, Stanford; Larry Cohen, Gates Foundation; David Fenton, Fenton Communications; Saul Griffith, Makani Power |
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Keith Coleman, Google; Geoffrey Carr, Economist; Nathan Wolfe, Stanford |
Danielle Lambert; Steven Levy, Wired |
Dean Ornish, PMRIl; Peter Diamandis, X-Prize; Anne Ornish |
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Matt Groening, The Simpsons; Shannon O'Leary |
Dean Kamen, Deka Research |
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Juan Enriquez, Excel Medical Ventures |
John Brockman, edge.org |
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Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins; Tony Fadell, Apple |
Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins; Shannon O'Leary, Apple |
Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins |
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Evan Williams, Twitter; Joi Ito, Creative Commons, Neotony |
Peter Gabriel; Bill Gates, Gates Foundation |
Jaron Lanier; Dean Kamen, Deka Research |
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Zack Bogue; Katinka Matson, edge.org |
Nathan Wolfe, Stanford |
Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures; Marissa Mayer, Google; Nathan Wolfe, Stanford |
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Lisa Randall, Harvard; Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Radar |
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Kevin Kelly, kk.org |
Peter Diamandis, X-Prize |
Lori Park, Google |
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Tony Fadell, Apple |
Lisa Randall, Harvard |
Max Brockman, Brockman, Inc. |
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Steve Case, Revolution Health; Jean Case, Case Foundation |
Danny Hillis, Applied Minds; Pam Omidyar, Omidyar Network |
Jeff Bezos, Amazon |
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Zack Bogue; Marissa Mayer, Google; |
Rod Brooks, Heartland Robotics |
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Matt Groening, The Simpsons |
Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network |
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