“Bold Visions” take flight at TEDxManhattanBeach
A bioremediation engineer, an amphibious housing architect, a robotics engineer, and a couple sleep scientist. A forgiver, an Alzheimer’s disrupter, an urban climate scientist, an augmented reality storyteller, a music man, and a pair of sound healers (who also happen to be brothers and war veterans). These are some of the speakers at this year’s TEDxManhattanBeach, and what they have in common is the title of this year’s event: “Bold Vision.” In truth, that title could apply to any of the last ten years’ worth of TEDxManhattanBeach talks, because that is what the event trades upon: bold ideas, shared. “It’s reflection time, and we don’t have a lot of that,” said Kate Bergin, who has been the event’s lead organizer since 2011. “It’s brain food. It’s soul food. And people don’t get a chance to experience this every day.” The event grew out of the TED conference that began in Monterey in 1984 intended to flesh out the convergence of three fields — technology, entertainment, and design — which included a demo of the compact disc, the e-book, and 3D graphics from Lucasfilm. The TED talks grew in popularity in the early 2000s through their videos, which are always free online, based on…
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