Way back on January 19 2008, the Cascade Theater presented the film ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’. A Redding native Kathleen Kennedy was involved with production and she introduced the film. The film received 4 Oscar nods. I didn’t get the chance to see it, but the story is interesting: A journalist named Jean-Dominique Bauby had a stroke, ended up speechless, but was able to author a book by blinking his eyes to an assistant.
Anyway, the TED organization thing recently featured a woman brain scientist named Jill Bolte Taylor who describes some of the hemispherical mechanics of the human brain and the experience of her own stroke. Pretty freaky.
Apparently, our right hemisphere is mostly in the “here and now” mode, while the left hashes out the linear past. Her stroke occurred in the left hemisphere, which blanked out the emotional baggage of the past and gave her a sense of euphoria. Funny.
Anyway, I don’t know much about the TED deal, but I read recently that some people are getting a group together and naming it BIL (as in the ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ movie ) as an alternative to the $6,000 price tag for admission to TED.
BIL loves TED. TED is a great place to sit and listen to interesting ideas. Many of those ideas make it online, and millions get to experience them.
The catch for many of us is that TED is $6,000, which is too expensive for most people, including a great number with good ideas worth spreading. BIL has been created as a free space for people with ideas to come together and share them.
Our event is self-organizing, emergent, and anarchic. Nobody is in charge. If you want to come just show up. If you’ve got an idea to spread start talking. If someone is saying something good, stop and listen.
We hope BIL can be a perfect match to TED.
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