Active in the field of medicine since 2012, Jay Walker serves as Chairman TEDMED, the health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED conference. A serial entrepreneur, Jay has founded three companies that have gone from launch to 50 million customers each. Jay is the world’s 10th most patented living inventor, with more than 750 issued U.S. patents in technology-related fields. He is also Chairman of Upside, a travel and technology company that serves the unmanaged business traveler. A passionate student and practitioner of imagination, Jay founded and curates the Library of the History of Human Imagination, which Wired magazine called “the most amazing private library in the world.’
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TEDMED Contributions
The power of asking "what if?"
Jay Walker, Chairman of TEDMED, shares treasures from The Library of The History of Human Imagination.
The evolution of humanity's understanding of life and death
Using artifacts from The Library of the History of Human Imagination, Jay Walker offers a better understanding of how humanity has come to comprehend the concepts of life…
A tour of shifting power throughout the ages
Using books from The Library of the History of Human Imagination, Jay Walker takes us back in time to explore power shifts throughout history.
Studying an historically accelerating pace of change
Jay walker, Chairman of TEDMED, takes us on a trip through history to discover a shockingly rapid pace of change, hiding in plain sight.
Jay Walker at TEDMED 2012 - Part 1
Ever wonder what happens to an astronaut’s heart rate as he lands on the moon for the first time? TEDMED curator Jay Walker displays an astonishing Apollo 11…
Jay Walker at TEDMED 2012 - Part 2
Jay demonstrates the beginnings of modern science and medicine by sharing medical books from the Roman era.
Jay Walker at TEDMED 2010 (8) - Unseen Forces
Jay Walker shows how the discovery of electricity gave license for human imagination to expand its horizons to other unseen forces.
The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination: The First Medical Book
Jay Walker presents a series of books from the 1500s to the early 1800s that portray visual “patterns” that were supposedly common to humans and animals.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The View Across Worlds
The first of ten short talks Jay Walker gave at TEDMED 2010. His theme: what the evolution of medical illustration reveals about human imagination in both art and…
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The Uses of Color
Jay Walker shows how medical texts have imaginatively employed color as a stimulant to understanding and a tool to create greater realism.
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