Tedx Dubai
Anyone going?
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Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10310890)
Anyone going?
What's your favourite TED talk? Mine is comfortably the German chap who talks about poverty etc with moving graphs/charts/diagrams etc. It's mind blowing. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 10310971)
I'd ****ing love to but can't...
What's your favourite TED talk? Mine is comfortably the German chap who talks about poverty etc with moving graphs/charts/diagrams etc. It's mind blowing. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_roslin...ever_seen.html It's got to be up there but no idea if I even have a favourite |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10311005)
You mean Swedish. Hand Rosling
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_roslin...ever_seen.html It's got to be up there but no idea if I even have a favourite I could spend hours watching them. Are you going? |
Re: Tedx Dubai
I know people who rave about this TED stuff, but I don't really get the point. Many of them are the 'social media is the cure for everything' crowd, which rather put me off.
Explanations and purpose welcome. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10311071)
I know people who rave about this TED stuff, but I don't really get the point. Many of them are the 'social media is the cure for everything' crowd, which rather put me off.
Explanations and purpose welcome. I like to see things that make me go 'wow'... like the link Shiva gave. Being told that everybody needs to say 'how are you today' or needs to be nice to the person on their left on the tube is all lovely but utterly hopeless. I see it as a way to learn something from some incredible minds. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 10311077)
I don't like or watch those ones.
I like to see things that make me go 'wow'... like the link Shiva gave. Being told that everybody needs to say 'how are you today' or needs to be nice to the person on their left on the tube is all lovely but utterly hopeless. I see it as a way to learn something from some incredible minds. Those ones? Those what? It is just a load of people giving talks on various topics? What's the purpose? |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10311082)
Those ones? Those what? It is just a load of people giving talks on various topics? What's the purpose?
They are basically talks around the world (mainly US I think)...they are on a mass of different topics...for example; Animals Architecture Design Predictions / Warnings Food Mind How we learn Storytelling Ocean Space Presentation Innovation (the link Shiva gave) Invention Comedy Technology War/Peace Adventure All sorts. They have a strapline of 'Ideas Worth Spreading', they've been going longer than I've been alive and I see it as a tool to see something amazing, hear something amazing, learn something, understand something, find out something. Anything really. Next time you have some spare time, you can go on their website www.ted.com and say 'i've got 5 minutes, amaze me' and you'll see some awesome shit. Don't get me wrong, the green/environmental stuff is boring and obviously none of the women one there have a clue ;) but the rest is mega. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Thanks Scamp. That makes more sense :)
Is there a list of talks in Dubai? |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10311098)
Thanks Scamp. That makes more sense :)
Is there a list of talks in Dubai? Not sure I'd like all of them. Favourite would probably be the Solar one...but worth investigating |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Scamp
(Post 10311032)
Close enough.
I could spend hours watching them. Are you going? |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10311082)
Those ones? Those what? It is just a load of people giving talks on various topics? What's the purpose?
just go to the main site and watch some videos, most do not include social media references. start with Hans Rosling. as an aside i am under no illusions that the Dubai one will compare to the US one however it is free and if just one talk is interesting then ill be happy. the US one is crazy expensive and ridiculously exclusive, think presidents, CEO's etc |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10311071)
I know people who rave about this TED stuff, but I don't really get the point. Many of them are the 'social media is the cure for everything' crowd, which rather put me off.
Explanations and purpose welcome. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
Originally Posted by Max Fly
(Post 10311279)
I don't get it either Meow- People are so strange, aren't they.
You sir are the very definition of ****ing strange. |
Re: Tedx Dubai
The design/tech ones are great usually.
Be intrigued to know what one of these is like live though, as it's all web watching for me :/ |
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