Founded on this day in 1984, the first Technology, Entertainment, Design conference of the US-Canadian 
non-profit media organisation—freely distributing “ideas worth spreading—featured futurist Mickey Schulhof demonstrating the compact disc, invented some eighteen months prior, and the Apple Macintosh with presentations by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, Nicholas Negroponte (with some rather prescient predictions, see also) and Whole Earth Catalogue’s Steward Brand. Broadening to scientific, cultural, humanitarian and academic topics, the main symposium has been held annually in Vancouver with other events interspersed throughout the year hosted globally and has been available universally under a Creative Commons license online since 2006.
synchronoptica
one year ago: assorted links to revisit, Civilisation plus number names
two years ago: more on the Royal Order of Adjectives plus London’s courting of oligarchs
three years ago: Quo Vadis (1951), the names of chess pieces plus Unworter of the Year
four years ago: more links to enjoy, ending NDAs, a superspreader event plus leap days
five years ago: a visit to the Neroberg
