At the Drift, Oscar Schwartz looks back at the TED talk and wonders what it was originally for and what it means now.

TED is probably best understood as the propaganda arm of an ascendant technocracy. It helped refine prediction into a rhetorical art well-suited to these aspiring world conquerors — even the ones who fail.

Having just been asked to produce a TED-like talk, this hit close to home. How have these talks changed the world? What real fruit have they borne?

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