CHRIS ANDERSON is Curator of the TED Conference held each February in Long Beach, California. The son of British missionaries, he was raised in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan before British 'public' school and an Oxford degree in Philosophy. A brief career in journalism, coupled with a passion for technology, inspired his launch in 1985 of Future Publishing, a computer magazine company based in the UK that eventually spread to the US (Imagine Media, Business 2.0), and now employs approximately 1000 people working on more than 100 magazines.