TED offered a vision of the world where complex societal issues could be solved with a lightbulb moment and a well-designed PowerPoint presentation. 

Climate change? There's an app for that. 

Poverty? A social entrepreneur with a TED talk has it figured out. 

It was a worldview that flattered millennials' sense of ourselves as changemakers while conveniently ignoring the systemic barriers to real change.

TED offered a vision of the world where complex societal issues could be solved with a lightbulb moment and a well-designed PowerPoint presentation. 

Climate change? There's an app for that. 

Poverty? A social entrepreneur with a TED talk has it figured out. 

It was a worldview that flattered millennials' sense of ourselves as changemakers while conveniently ignoring the systemic barriers to real change.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/ted-talks-the-picotop-of-millennial-pop-intellectualism

The DAO Joan Index 🍕 tech + humans + philosophy. Founder @ Idle Ventures. Farcaster OG. FID 3305

https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

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