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02/28/2006: "Dr. Brilliant, meet TED"

Dr. Larry Brilliant is not only in-control of one of the largest investment funds known to man, but now he's the recipient of a 2006 TED Prize

The presentation is actually interesting. Its a short-course on how the UN fought a massively parallel land war in order to search out and eradicate smallpox. 150,000 people were employed in the effort. The same techniques are being used today by 4 million people in an attempt to eradicate polio.

Dr. Brilliant observes that in the event of a epidemic, mankind's only hope is to use these same techniques of early detection and early response, and his TED wish is INSTEAD, a system built on GPHIN that can assist in the early detection and early response of pandemic events.

Larry should stick to medicine.

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." -- Hunter S. Thompson