Inside TED: the smartest bubble in the world A week-long journey into a temporary utopia Imagine, if you will, a snow globe. Wait, the snow globe is in California — Long Beach to be exact. It’s really sunny in this particular snow globe. There’s a beach. Okay, thinking of a west coast snow globe? Good. What’s inside the snow globe? Buildings — say, the sprawling, mid-century Long Beach Convention
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