As I saw various friends share the recent Guardian article, transcribing Benjamin Bratton’s TEDx talk criticising TED, I started to feel uneasy. I’d briefly read the article, planned to watch the speech, and my initial feelings were that I disagreed. But the overtures being shared were that of concurrence. A sort of borrowed eureka, that this one 11 minute speech had won their approval, and why hadn’t they looked at it like that before? Sentiments such as, “I love TED, but this guy has a point” (I paraphrase) were declared. Here's where I got with that.
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