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cgod  ·  3981 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Benjamin Bratton: We need to talk about TED

Is there a place that takes TED talks seriously? I enjoy a good TED talk but at least 60% of them are bull-shitty garbage or so far outside my areas of interest that I couldn't tell you what they are.

I'd say about 10% of the talks are great, not for their ability predict what will come but for their ability to provoke a bit of thoughtful perspective on areas of the the world I hadn't thought of before.

    Capitalism in theory is rocket ships, nanomedicine, and Bono saving Africa.
What? Maybe in some bizarre Jingoistic libertarian fever dream. I don't even think Freedman was that silly at his worst.