TED's fuel for thought

A dream of sharing with significance: TED curator Chris Anderson, pictured here in 2007, says the global phenomenon - including the independent TEDx events - is driven by the belief that knowledge can and should be shared. - Wikimedia Commons / Pierre Omidyar

TED’s curator insists the talks aren’t a recipe for ‘civilisational disaster’.

SEVEN years ago, when TED Talks made its debut online, the blogosphere buzzed contentedly over this new free form of intellectual food. The Guardian once published an op-ed entitled In Praise of ... TED. Now, with more than two million views of TED Talks daily, some bloggers have discovered you can win a lot more clicks by going with “In Condemnation of TED”.