TED talks are not edging out legitimate academic coursework. The dichotomy you speak of doesn't exist. There is a market and a need for talks that don't attempt

TED talks are not edging out legitimate academic coursework. The dichotomy you speak of doesn't exist. There is a market and a need for talks that don't attempt to be rigorous in any sense, but are simply to show what is possible and what is coming. Why do many of you people seem to be against this? These critiques look more like territory-marking than anything substantive.