Thursday, June 21, 2012

The cult of TED...

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Others have entered the realms of the downright strange, such as when Microsoft Bill Gates unleashed live mosquitoes into the auditorium during a talk on malaria because "there's no reason why only poor people should have the experience" (the insects were not infected).

It's an impressive level of public interest in an event sneered at by detractors as an expensive talking-shop-cum-networking-event for latte-wielding, iPad clutching, West Coast blue-sky thinkers.

Indeed, the gathering at which the talks are filmed would appear to run counter to every principle on which the online era of interactivity is supposed to be based.

To attend the next TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh from 25-29 June, potential attendees must apply for $6,000 (£3,700) annual membership. Full story...

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