Intellectual life in the Internet age. How to explain TED? It’s where the smart and the rich pretend they have something in common…
Smart talk has never been such a valuable commodity. It’s spawned conferences like TED, Davos, and now a slew of upstart competitors. It has made the eighteen‑minute TED lecture a viral online phenomenon. But are we running out of things to say?
To judge by TED’s remarkable success, we may well be living...a golden age of ideas, a...