What I remember about TED 2024: AI. AI. AI. The sun’s unpredictable activity might lead us into a mini-ice age that could last 70 years, but we don’t know because we don’t know enough about the sun. Something about fusion and fission. Quantum computing speaker went on stage with sunglasses on top of his head that he wears at all times. A gorgeous talk in Mandarin by Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang, which, thanks to AI, allowed his own voice to do the Mandarin-to-English translation of the talk in real time, as he was giving it. Controversy about Bill Ackman getting to do a TED Talk, only he ended up not giving one but sitting for a vague Q and A instead. I met my shero, Monica Lewinsky, after looking all over for her for days. She was wearing blue.