TED

I find the TED website to be very intriguing and really funny and even enlightening in some ways. After reading about the worksheet in class, though, not everyone thinks the same way as I do. Which is completely okay, of course! But I really do not agree with what they are saying about it. They are saying that TED is commercializing products and ideas and making them not as genuine as the speakers claim the ideas are. Yet, how are else are you going to get ideas out there if you don't have a big audience and the internet to help? Honestly, you really can't. And also, ideas are spread everywhere to everyone. For new products to come about, you need to communicate with the people around you and really get ideas out in the open. You know Apple didn't come about from keeping ideas secret. They had to get together and communicate how to effectively market their ideas. I don't see TED as a bad idea. I really like the idea of conventions held to produce ideas and spread wisdom and enlightenment upon others. It's really neat, actually.