TALKS ARE VAPID, CULTY MASS-SELFIES” “The long knives have been out for TED Talk

http://www.theawl.com/2014/01/what-if-these-seven-famous-ted-talks-are-just-totally-wrong?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAwl+%28The+Awl%29″TED TALKS ARE VAPID, CULTY MASS-SELFIES”

“The long knives have been out for TED Talks for some time. Benjamin Bratton called them “middlebrow megachurch infotainment.” Evegny Morozov called the TED publishing arm the “insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering.” The gist of these arguments is that TED Talks are vapid, culty mass-selfies that fetishize technology for every solution. It is “placebo science” meant to make its audience feel good about learning and themselves, where ideas can hang out and do whatever, man—just turn the safety off on your brain-gun.”