As you know, this year’s TED didn’t really have a theme per se, but what they did was to invite fifty (50) remarkable people and let them loose…

These speakers shared what they thought was important, what they were passionate about, and to let us see just how interconnected these ideas are. I mean, let’s face it, the world is connected in ways we would have never dreamed of just years ago. And in this connection, ideas are being shared more freely than in any other time in human history.

It’s an exciting time, and these TED speakers show just how exciting a time we are in…

• ALAN KAY Computer Scientist and UI Specialist
• BEN DUNLAP President of Wofford College
• BILL CLINTON Former United States President
• BILL STONE Cave Explorer
• CAROLYN PORCO Planetary Scientist
• DANIEL GOLEMAN Psychologist and Author
• DEBORAH SCRANTON Documentary Film Producer
• EAMES DEMETRIOS Design Exponent; 3-Dimensional Fiction Creator
• EDWARD deBONO Lateral Thinking Pioneer
• ELIZABETH DILLER Architect
• EMILY OSTER Economist
• EO WILSON Biologist
• ERIN MCKEAN Editor-in-chief of the Oxford American Dictionary
• HANS ROSLING Global Health Visionary
• HENRY LOUIS GATES JR Cultural Critic
• ISABEL ALLENDE Author Tales of Passion
• JAIME LERNER Architect, Urban Planner
• JAMES NACHTWEY Photojournalist
• JAMES RANDI Scientific Skeptic
• JAN CHIPCHASE User Anthropologist
• JEFF HAN Founder/Chief Scientist, Perceptive Pixel, Inc.
• JEFF SKOLL Founder of Participant Productions; Former president of eBay
• JJ ABRAMS Creator of Lost and Alias
• JOHN DOERR Venture Capitalist
• JOHN MAEDA Graphic Designer
• JONATHAN HARRIS Artist, Designer
• JONATHAN WIDOM Cell Biologist
• KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR NBA Hall of Famer
• KATHERINE FULTON President, Monitor Institute
• LAWRENCE LESSIG Stanford Law Professor
• MAIRA KALMAN Illustrator
• MICHAEL POLLAN Author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
• MURRAY GELL-MANN Nobel Laureate
• NATHAN MYHRVOLD Founder, Intellectual Ventures
• NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA Former Nigerian Finance Minister
• PAOLA ANTONELLI Design Curator
• PAUL EWALD Evolutionary Biologist
• PAUL SIMON Singer/songwriter
• PHILIPPE STARCK Designer
• RAUL MIDON Musician
• RICHARD BRANSON Founder of Virgin
• RIVES Poet
• ROBIN CHASE Founder, Zipcar
• STEVEN PINKER Evolutionary psychologist
• TED SARGENT Nanotechnologist
• THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Musicians
• THOMAS DOLBY with the Jazz Mafia
• TOM RIELLY Outrageous Humorist
• TRACY CHAPMAN Singer/songwriter
• VILAYANUR RAMACHANDRAN Neurologist
• WILL WRIGHT Groundbreaking Video Game Designer
• ZAHA HADID Architect