Liz Gannes

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TED Talks Hit One Billion Views

TED today said that its conference videos have been seen more than one billion times. Sure, “Gangnam Style” alone is about to catch up, but the standard TED format is an 18-minute lecture. There are 1,400 free TED videos online, and as of today there are now playlists of favorite talks by Ben Affleck, Bill Gates and Glenn Close.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer