Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny. Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom. MIT Media Lab &Cognitive Limit of Organizations. This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo.
He used this slide to explain a concept that I think is key to the way we think about how the Media Lab is evolving. The vertical axis of this slide represents the total stock of information in the world. The horizontal axis represents time. In the early days, life was simple. TED. What I Learned Watching 150 Hours of TED Talks - Carmine Gallo. By Carmine Gallo | 11:00 AM April 11, 2014 What makes for a great presentation — the kind that compels people’s attention and calls them to action?
TED talks have certainly set a benchmark in recent years: HBR even asked Chris Anderson, the group’s founder, to offer lessons drawn from the three decades he’s run TED’s signature events in an article published last summer. But experience and intuition are one thing; data and analysis are another. What could one learn by watching the most successful TED talks in recent years (150 hours’ worth), talking to many of the speakers, then running the findings by neuroscientists who study persuasion? Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art. Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify. Caroline Casey: Looking past limits.
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