Captain Future's Log

The Future Fair

This extraordinary group of people from different walks of life does have, collectively, the ability to change the world," Gore said. "We face ... a global emergency, a planetary emergency.... There is enormous danger, but there is enormous opportunity to respond to this planetary emergency by making the 21st century a century of renewal."

The Future We Will Create was the theme of the conference, which ran Wednesday through Saturday. Now in its third decade, the conference is run by former Future Publishing and Imagine Media owner Chris Anderson (not to be confused with Wired's editor in chief), who took it over in 2002.

More on the TED conference in Montery from Wired

Although the new emphasis on the public future instead of just the private is noteworthy, it still was an invitation-only conference for the wealthy. We may look to some of these folks for leadership, but the future belongs to everyone, and a better representation is needed just for critique and ideas.

Or maybe Captain Future is just ticked off that as usual, he wasn't invited. (Or the other hand, he's thinking of changing his name to Chris Anderson.)