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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It’s hard to convey the whiggish leibnizean optimism of the heady days in the mid-late aughts when og TED talks were first made public and you too could do your own TEDx and be part of the solution by sharing Ideas Worth Spreading about Technology, Education, and Design
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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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Transparencies were generally portrays mode for lectures iirc. I used to make both portrait and landscape.

