Big History at TED Conference with Bill Gates | Wired.com

Berkshire author David Christian on Big History at the TED Conference last month, thanks to Bill Gates’s acting as a “curator.” I love seeing how this new, bigger world history scholarship is being received, and described, by people hearing about it for the first time.

About the Author: Karen Christensen

Karen Christensen is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and writer. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, a research associate of the Fairbank Center at Harvard, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and founder of the Train Campaign. She was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, Her Substack newsletter, The Way We Live Now, has over 12,000 subscribers: www.karenchristensen.substack.com.