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Against TED talks
40hz:
^Oy! The spirit of Cotton Mather is heard throughout the forum! :P ;D
Deozaan:
I've had a nagging suspicion for a while now that TED talks were becoming more and more like video representations of snake oil shows or SCIgen papers, but I always felt I was alone in this regard. All the cool kids were into TED, and the water cooler conversations always seemed to include the sentence "... so I heard this one thing in a TED talk...", so what was wrong with me?
Turns out, I'm not as alone as I thought.
Nathan Jurgenson at The New Inquiry (not one of my regular hangouts...) has written a pretty good summation of what I've been feeling all along.
TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but often fails to deliver. It’s become the Urban Outfitters of the ideas world, finding “cool” concepts suitable for being packaged and sold to the masses, thereby extinguishing the “cool” in the process. Cutting-edge ideas not carrying the Apple-esque branding are difficult to find.
-http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/against-ted/
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-Edvard (February 25, 2014, 12:28 AM)
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Am I the only one who noticed that that article was written two years ago? :huh:
40hz:
@Deo - you probably are. ;D
wraith808:
@Deo - you probably are. ;D
-40hz (February 28, 2014, 03:57 AM)
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Poor Deo... looking at such silly things like dates ;D
Anyone heard of TEDxTeen? I'd not seen it before until a group I followed said something about being there.
http://www.tedxteen.com/speakers-performers/tedxteen-2014/202-unlocking-the-truth
http://www.tedxteen.com/
superboyac:
@Deo - you probably are. ;D
-40hz (February 28, 2014, 03:57 AM)
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l o l !!
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