Objects of Imagination
What can objects from the past reveal about the way we think today? Behind every discovery are questions, assumptions, and people willing to imagine something different.
In this collection of TEDMED talks, Jay Walker shares artifacts from the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination. Through the stories they hold, he explores how people have sought to understand the world, challenged accepted ideas, and sometimes followed convincing patterns in the wrong direction.
This playlist brings together moments of curiosity, ingenuity, and surprise, inviting us to look closely at the objects people created and consider how their ideas continue to shape our own.
The evolution of humanity’s understanding of life and death
Jay Walker
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 and death.
More About This TalkAbout Jay Walker
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.’
