Is TED the new Harvard?

[makeramen]

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/148/how-ted-became-the-new-harvard.html

[api]

Umm no.

Deep brain-churning scholarship is hard! Let's have spiffy whizzy pop science talks!

(TED can be interesting, but this article is WTF.)

[julius_geezer]

When you list Elizabeth Gilbert and Tony Robbins, you make it plausible that TED is the new Renaissance Weekend, if you remember those.

Or maybe the new Aspen State.

[myffical]

Maybe.

One of TED's purposes is to bring together people with ideas and people with the capital and influence to make them happen.

[devmonk]

No.