One of my great professional joys over the years has been to attend the TED conference in Monterey, California — an annual gathering of about 1000 of the most forward-looking people across the Technology, Entertainment, and Design industries (thus the initials TED).  Many of the talks are quite serious and thought-provoking.  Others are…shall we say, unusual.

Now crossing my desk is a just-released clip from last year’s TED that I thought readers of this blog might enjoy.  It’s from David Pogue, tech writer for the New York Times.  Here, without further comment and for your amusement, is David’s four-minute history of music and video on the web: