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A sunny and very cold Friday morning, while waiting for the bus, I overheard this conversation between two elderly women. They were talking about how the sky us
by josu 13y ago
A sunny and very cold Friday morning, while waiting for the bus, I overheard this conversation between two elderly women. They were talking about how the sky used to be bluer when they were younger and the cold used to feel better. They were arguing that the cold nowadays is too cold, and how the old cold used to be more forgiving.
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- JonnieCache 13y agoThe difference being, we can travel back in time and see what TED was really like 5 years ago: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_animal_movement.html http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_animal_movement.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZrAGdZ1i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZrAGdZ1i8 Notice that I still picked a heartwarming personal story for the second one. See how different it is in delivery and intent to the heartwarming personal stories you get on there today. Let me reiterate: I don't care about the audience - they don't affect me. It's the type of speaker which is attracted by the new, larger demographic that I don't like. The talks aren't written for the room any more, they're written for youtube, and by extension, the speaker's resume and lifetime earning potential. Compare the speakers' eyelines in those talks vs the new ones.
- rootbear 13y agoThanks for pointing out the Robert Full talk. He gave a talk at Pixar during production of "A Bug's Life" and it was fascinating. And, yes, these older TED talks were better.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoI think both nostalgia and going mainstream contributed for the quality (at least seem) to go down.
- jjindev 13y agoCouldn't it be that early Teds harvested low hanging fruit? By that I mean a backlog of 20 years worth of under exposed idea people? Once you've done Frans de Waal (etc.) you can't just go find another.