Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.
Evgeny Morozov

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  1. philk reblogged this from summeromegadeth and added:
    Cool story, looking forward to the TED talk.
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    PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WHEN MAKING THE JACK-OFF MOTION AT TEHD TALKS YOU MUST CREDIT SUMMER OF MEGADETH ONLINE INTERNET...
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  8. minou said: ONE THOUSAND TIMES YES
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