I love TED

Is it just me or am I the only person who loves to hear ideas from people. Ideas which've been mulled upon for hours, days, weeks and yes even years. But even after all this thinking you find that, that person still has so much passion and conviction behind their idea to the extent that it's developed into an actual real world concept or thing. This is one aspect of life I wish the people of this world could focus more on today and beyond.

If any of you have not heard of TED which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, is an annual conference which brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18mins. You can find out more from their website here: www.ted.com . It just so happens that these three topics Technology, Entertainment and Design are my favourite topics and I'm sure this applies to many more out there.

Before I get lost in more literary rhetoric, I just want to say in terms of mental stimulation this conference tops everything. The website provides hundreds of free videos and podcasts for download on every interesting topical issue relevant to mankind today. I urge you all to take a look. You interest may be in the Arts, Information technology, Biotechnology, TED has it all. To top it all of, these talks are not just done by anyone, but by the leading thinkers and individuals in the world today in each of their respective fields.

I also very happy when TED extended itself to Africa and approached a number of Africa's top thinkers to have their say. As Africans I feel we owe it to ourselves to start thinking more in terms of innovation, technology, design and not to rely on western borne ideas. We have millions of educated, qualified individuals who hold the key to many of our problems. Lets continue to share ideas, develop ideas and more so dare to implement those ideas.