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

I miss the talks that were entertainment oriented like Rives 4AM talk back in 2007:

“Foul-mouthed leftist” 🍕 I write about tech + politics + humans. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://joanwestenberg.com/

I miss the talks that were entertainment oriented like Rives 4AM talk back in 2007:
https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_the_4_a_m_mystery?language=en&subtitle=en