We Are Now at Peak TED
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We Are Now at Peak TED
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#2> We have reached Peak TED.
> That’s TED. But we may not have hit the peak yet.
We can have it both ways, it seems. Peak means there is a decline coming. The article closes on a note that suggests otherwise.
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#3This banned TED talk is all you need to know about TED and where their motivations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g
Peak TED is actually this video on how to use one paper towel when washing your hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc. You mean if you shake your hands and fling water all over the bathroom then you don't need as much paper to absorb the remaining water? How revolutionary.
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#4Is there any actual content in this article? Other than how awesome TED is?
Did they address a single concern or critique of TED in this article?
No... Just that it's 'awesome'.
Well ok then TED organizers... Thanks for reminding us that you think you're so great, you feel no need to listen to anyone.
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#5This banned TED talk is all you need to know about TED and where their motivations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g Peak TED is actually this video on how to use one paper towel when washing your hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc . You mean if you shake your hands and fling water all over the bathroom then you don't need as much paper to absorb the remaining water? How revolutionary.
Why was that talk banned? Doesn't seem very controversial?
Re: We Are Now at Peak TED
#6This banned TED talk is all you need to know about TED and where their motivations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g Peak TED is actually this video on how to use one paper towel when washing your hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc . You mean if you shake your hands and fling water all over the bathroom then you don't need as much paper to absorb the remaining water? How revolutionary.
Why was that talk banned? Doesn't seem very controversial?
It's not controversial to the working class but it's very controversial to the kind of people who bankroll TED.
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#7TED trivia: Chris Anderson, the founder, got his break in business by starting an 8-bit computer magazine called Amstrad Action. The magazine grew to become a computer publishing empire, Future plc, giving Anderson the funds and freedom to try TED.
(Amstrad Action was a great magazine. I was its freelance tech ed in its last years - gave me my start in journalism.)
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#9A ticket to TED costs $8500. I didn't realize that.....I look at the audience at TED talks a whole different way now.
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#10TED, or the perfect display of what public speaking is today: that is, getting some kind of Tony Robbins on stage, who wont be shy of using the same tricks they learnt at some toaster club, to inspire and wow a crowd that's actually more here to enjoy their charisma rather than their ideas. TED is the absolute evidence that the powerpointization of ideas is in its terminal stage.