TED 2006 program's out

The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) 2006 program has just been unveiled by my friends in New York, and it defies any known definition of "expectation management", for it promises an outstanding end-of-February week (22-25). I'll be there and report back.
Among those who will be speaking and performing (spoiler alert: names-dropping follows) are rockstar and Witness founder Peter Gabriel, architect for humanity Cameron Sinclair, FabLab's Neil Gershenfeld, actress Julia Sweeney, aerospace designer Burt Rutan, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, blogging pioneer Mena Trott, MediaLab's Nicholas Negroponte of "100-dollars-laptop" fame, authors Robert Wright (Nonzero) and Rick Warren (The Purpose-driven Life), anthropologist Helen Fisher, the remarkable 11-year-old violinist Sirena Huang, the architect of the Seattle public library Joshua Prince-Ramus, and thirty or so other scientists, designers, musicians, business and tech leaders, activists and artists.
Including one Al Gore, formerly vice-president of the United States, who, counter to TED tradition, will be giving two speeches. I'm told that one will be about global warming, and the other about his newest project, CurrentTV, and more generally about participative media.
And brilliantly funny Tom Rielly will do the closing wrap-up again. Can't wait.