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FT: Ideas conferences have lost their spontaneity, says Richard Saul Wurman. His solution? A $16,000-a-ticket event featuring David Blaine, Herbie Hancock and 72 hours of ‘intellectual jazz’

Satori.lv: Vai TED konferencēm beigušās svaigas idejas un izrādēm ar 16 000 dolārus vērtām ieejas biļetēm pienācis gals?

Bet ja jāsaka, ko es domāju par to 'intelektuālo džezu', tad man tas šķiet vienkārši elitārs naudinieks, līdzīgi kā TED. 16 taukšķi par biļeti, lai paskatītos kā kaut kādi nozaru līderi brīvi sarunāsies un tas viss vizionārā cerībā, ka tas sniegs dažus vērtīgus atklātības momentus (a few “good moments of honesty” will emerge). Nu ko, normāls šovs.
Un, protams, tagad TED jau ir 'so oldschool': In recent years, though, too many things have, he feels, crept back in. “Now every speech is auditioned, rehearsed, edited, rehearsed again,” he says. “The spontaneity is gone and there’s a lot of selling of charities. There’s the selling of being PC.” Megan Smith, a Google vice-president and a guest speaker at WWW, agrees: “TED talks today are very prepared, which respects people’s time, but there’s not as much of that raw information.”