www.www Guided conversations with extraordinary individuals The forum shall be improvisational intellectual jazz conversations guided by a series of questions — not an interview however. The history of the evolution of this idea is as follows: 1962 - My first book was a simple guide to understanding 50 of the world's cities all to the same scale. 1967 - A guide of complex statistical analysis of 20 American cities: The MIT Press 1975/76 — The initiation of guiding principals of information architecture manifested in my chairing a new form of gathering using the entire downtown Philadelphia with 5,000 attending architects at the Architecture of Information gathering for the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects. The presenters were from varied disciplines, i.e., Jonas Salk, Buckminster Fuller and William Zeckendorf Sr. 1980 — The reinvention of the modern guidebook and beginning of publishing more than 2 dozen books on cities, health, wealth and sports: Access Press. 1984: In observing and reflecting upon various convergences between certain innovative disciplines of the late 20th century, I focused on the melding of the Technology business, the Entertainment industry and Design professions from which I created the TED Conference. EFTA21_00010658 EFTA01733921