Monique Ruff-Bell: Chris, we are celebrating 40 years at TED.

Is that not crazy?

So wonderful.

Chris Anderson: So crazy.

Forty years.

It's funny, TED started the year where I thought the world was going to end, 1984.

MRB: Why did you think the world was going to end in 1984?

CA: Because I read George Orwell, "1984." It seemed, like, as a teenager I read that bookm and I thought, wow, yeah, the world can't possibly go past that.

This dystopian future coming.

And it's so funny that now that seems so long ago.