Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.

And whether it's the opening line from One Hundred Years of Solitude or the fantastical stream of consciousness in Autumn of the Patriarch, where the words rush by, page after page of unpunctuated imagery sweeping the reader along like some wild river twisting through a primal South American jungle, reading Márquez is a visceral experience.

Stephen Petranek At first, it all seemed a little fantastical to me, but after challenging a lot of these ideas, I began to take a lot of them seriously. And then September 11 happened, and I thought, ah, God, I can't go to the TED conference and talk about how the world is going to end.