TED 2026 and the Fight for the Human

Nine ideas from this year’s conference on love, work, attention, community and the things that start to matter more when everything else gets faster, easier and flatter

It’s hard to explain unless you’re in the room. It’s shockingly… emotional. For like 5 days straight.

Last year, after TED, I wrote a piece called The Upload Happens Bit by Bit. It was a threshold piece for me (not least of which because I wrote from a personal point of view… which I almost never do). I tried to name the strange way change arrives before…