This article pretty much sums up the problem with TED Talks (and the approach to innovation they encourage): "In 2014, I attended TED's main Vancouver conference and watched the opening talk, from the MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. In his closing words, he claimed that in 30 years, 'we are going to ingest information. You're going to swallow a pill and know English. You're going to swallow a pill and know Shakespeare. And the way to do it is through the bloodstream. So once it's in your bloodstream, it basically goes through it and gets into the brain, and when it knows that it's in the brain, in the different pieces, it deposits it in the right places.' Over my left shoulder, a hushed voice whispered, 'Wow.'"
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