![]() It’s very difficult to do anything interesting within the format, and even this seems like far too much of a ‘TED talk’, especially to me. This is my ( Benjamin Bratton‘s) rant against TED, placebo politics, “innovation,” middlebrow mega-church infotainment, etc., given at TEDx San Diego at their invitation (thank you to Jack Abbott and Felena Hanson). So, dear readers, here are 18 minutes to bluff your way to enlightenment. ![]() And if you want to cure yourself of TEDDICTION permanently, just read “TED talks are lying to you” by Thomas Frank. You can watch the video ( in the preferred TED way) or (what we like!) read the transcript of the talk which follows this long introduction by us. Or, if you are in a mood for some absurd Zen and have lots of time to cogitate, watch the TOP 9 meaninglessTEDx talks from Shillong.īut if you really want to have a laugh so that you will never ever view anything with TED as a prefix again, just let Sam Hyde take you through 2070 Paradigm Shift, a TEDxplosion. So we bring you a TEDx talk by Benjamin Bratton called “What’s Wrong with TED Talks?” which he delivered at TEDxSanDiego in 2013. Shillong with its vanity number plates – ‘educational capital’, ‘rock capital’, ‘cliché capital’ – has had many of these TEDx sessions, infested by wannabe celebrities, failed politicians, music evangelists, development messiahs, crumbling royalty, all stuffed into an 18 minute slot, with their cliched insights and useless powerpoint slides. Although the buzz around TED has died down, its bastard child called TEDx stalks provincial countries and towns like a persistent salesman. These talks are designed to make people feel good about themselves to flatter them and make them feel clever and knowledgeable and allow them to delude themselves into thinking that they are the ‘thinking crowd’ who can make the world a better place. ![]() TED Talks - they give your “discovery-seeking brain a little hit of dopamine” make you “feel part of a curious, engaged, enlightened, and tech-savvy tribe” almost giving you the sensation that you’re attending a “new Harvard.” That is the hype around TED Talks.
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