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The 2011 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off next week in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk about innovation, change and the future.
What we dig most about the TED conference are the talks that it yields, videos of which are all archived on the organization's website.
Keep an eye on Mashable in the coming week for our TED coverage, but, in the meantime, get some learnin' below.