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Idea: gigantic global TEDxAbsurdum where everybody is both invited and will give a 10-minute lightning talk to figure out the future. There are ~5 billion people over 15 in the world. 34,722,222 days worth of talks. Run a million parallel tracks 24x7 and we’d be done in 34 days.
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The great conceit of late neoliberalism past invention of PowerPoint was that solving for a better future was a matter of more and better presentations about it.
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Though there were several good talks, it was like less than 10%. About 90% we’re definitely not ideas worth spreading.
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When they come to take me away to the guillotine I’ll be yelling, “I’m not elite! I never even gave a TEDx talk!”
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Business culture doesn’t shift very often. Maybe once every couple of generations. Maybe 1 in 10 office technologies really shifts culture. I think PowerPoint shifted culture more than email. Email was basically memos. PPT was very different from hand-made OHP transparencies
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