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fostering a culture of intellectualism.

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yo-yoing

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  • A comment on Conversation: What's your favorite single sentence from a TEDTalk?

    Feb 15 2011: I'm a sucker for Amory Lovin's talk about winning the oil endgame. This is the best line from it:

    "Thos... inefficient [air]planes are worth more to society dead than alive. We ought to take them out back and shoot them, and put bounty hunters after them."

  • A comment on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

    Feb 15 2011: I haven't heard many people talk about the book "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. On the surface level, it does the same thing as Contact (first contact with an alien race by radio) but has a world of deeper levels. It explores - much more maturely than anything else I've read - questions of faith, and why bad things happen to good people. Hands down, my favorite book.
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    A comment on Conversation: will online conversation make huge difference?

    Feb 15 2011: This is one of those tough questions that needs to be asked. Unfortunately, I think the honest answer is that online conversation can only be a small part of TED's mission of spreading world changing ideas.

    Unless I'm woefully misguided here, only a select percentage of the population A) uses the Internet consistently and meaningfully (example, reading news online, searching for jobs), and B) understands its power and functionality to affect people's lives (like Twitter revolutions, or using Google to predict flu trends). So if only this subset of the population understands the Internet, we're leaving out a lot of people from the conversation by keeping the content strictly online.

    On that note, there is a limited potential utility for online conversations. It can help people parse out the real problems that need to be address in the world, so that when people finally get up out of their chairs and start working, they're not doing the wrong things.

    Great question!

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