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."

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Jay Walker Talk

Jay Walker

2020
13:17

The power of asking "what if?"

Jay Walker

2016
Stay Tuned - Jay Walker's Talk Will Release Later in 2015

Jay Walker

2014
07:25

A tour of shifting power throughout the ages

Jay Walker

2013
07:43

Studying an historically accelerating pace of change

Jay Walker

2013
12:36

The evolution of humanity's understanding of life and death

Jay Walker

2013
09:58

Ever wonder what happens to an astronaut's heart rate as he lands on the moon for the first time?

Jay Walker

2012
04:40

When did the era of modern science begin?

Jay Walker

2012
15:31

Imagination Talks: The First Medical Book

Jay Walker

2010
07:03

Imagination Talks: The Human Brain

Jay Walker

2010
04:57

Hidden Aspects of Death

Jay Walker

2010
07:11

Imagination Talks: The View Across Worlds

Jay Walker

2010
07:28

Beauty in Service of Science

Jay Walker

2010
06:39

Imagination Talks: The Medical Art of War

Jay Walker

2010
03:32

Imagination Talks: Unseen Micro-Worlds

Jay Walker

2010
04:14

Imagination Talks: Imagination in Depth

Jay Walker

2010
54:12

Imagination Talks: The Uses of Color

Jay Walker

2010
54:12

Imagination Talks: Unseen Forces

Jay Walker

2010

04:13

The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination

A visit to the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination is a celebration of human invention. The Library contains some 20,000 volumes and hundreds of museum-level books, manuscripts, maps and artifacts. These precious objects are housed in a unique setting that is itself a work of art. The architecture of the vast room was inspired by the mind-bending designs of artist M.C. Escher; it features multilevel tiers, "floating" platforms, connecting stairways, a glass bridge, illuminated glass panels, dynamic lighting, and specially commissioned art and music.

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