New perspectives whats wrong with TED talks Benjamin Bratton at TEDx San Diego 2013 Re: Think

Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD and Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2, asks: Why don t the bright futures promised in TED talks come true Professor Bratton attacks the intellectual viability of TED, calling it placebo politics, middlebrow megachurch infotainment, and the equivalent of rightwing media channels. Does TED falsely present problems as simply puzzles to be solved by rearranging the pieces In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx