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I am a thought leader you know that I'm
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a thought leader because I'm wearing a
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Blazer I have glasses and I've just done
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this with my
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hands in the early 2010s TED Talks were
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highly regarded around the world for
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giving the public never before seen
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access to the world's brightest Minds I
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just couldn't put my
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finger huge bust huge bust huge bust
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huge bust you keep going but somewhere
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along the way something changed today
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the conference has a reputation for
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being little more than a place for
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people to roleplay as Tech Visionaries
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what is a birthday I think it can best
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be understood by breaking down the word
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birth and day whether it's due to
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overall poor quality control or the
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insane rumors about the way they treat
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speakers they don't agree with Eddie
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Wong came in here Eddie Wong told his
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gross story that makes you just go ew
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Ted these talks have undeniably gone
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from thought-provoking the provoking
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thoughts no one asked for one thing I am
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certain of is that no one ever heard me
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at work I made sure you guys will not be
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able to believe like your eyes watch the
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success stories my lab has
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had the Ted conference actually goes
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back to 1984 when a man named Richard sa
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Worman wanted to bring together leading
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thinkers from different fields to share
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ideas worth spreading it's initially
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aimed at people working in the newly
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established Silicon Valley where
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companies like apple Atari and LucasArts
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are more interested in the Big Ideas
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behind technology rather than the
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computer parts themselves so Ted is
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created as a place where they can share
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these ideas about the emerging fields of
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Technology entertainment and design all
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in all this first event serves as a good
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proof of concept digital audio is
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becoming something that is more
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wellknown I'm not sure how many of you
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have actually had a chance to hear it
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[Music]
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it had uh almost 700 ICS in it so you
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could by 1990 when Silicon Valley is the
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tech Hub of the world Ted is pretty much
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their official annual conference with a
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small but devout community of Ted sters
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who bring in revolutionary ideas from
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all sorts of fields we make
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computers that
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one best weapon we have to explore this
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new world is the one between our ears
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providing it loaded what is a collective
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M
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People you and this conference was good
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for me was it good for
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you this has been Richard's dream all
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along there was 150 women and 411 men 50
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people with phds there are 24 people
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from nine countries and with his vision
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now fully realized he's tired this is
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when devout teder Chris Anderson comes
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to the rescue and I think you have a
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right to who know that I paid $14
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million for
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this fortunately he's just the guy for
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the job because Chris knows what Ted
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means to people no selling no corporate
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bull no bandwagoning you know no
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platforms just the pursuit of Interest
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wherever it lies that's not going to be
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changed at
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all oh if you only knew yes D cat in
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2006 after seeing the potential of
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online media sharing Chris introduces
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ted.com opening the gates of this
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exclusive conference to the world
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however while this might appear to be a
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great thing for you and me many of the
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OG tedsters would argue that removing
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exclusivity might end up making it worse
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for everyone as the event becomes less
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about ideas worth spreading and more
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about just ideas they post their first
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talks from the 2006 conference needless
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to say people are stunned at some point
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during the next 4 days your brain might
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explode by then you won't even care it's
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time for
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Ted but things were just getting started
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public figures begin to see Ted in a
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whole new light not just for exchanging
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ideas but also coming across to
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Consumers as more human like yeah I know
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that's literally gain Maxwell but guys
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she saw a plas deer in the ocean and now
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she cares about the ocean I was
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devastated I was angry and I understood
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stood immediately that the ocean was in
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trouble no I think she was just scared
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for her part of the ocean if you know
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what I'm
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saying cuz she's a pet speaker lineup in
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2007 brings Ted to a whole new level
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Larry Page and Serj Brin the founders of
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Google the founder and CEO of Amazon
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Richard Branson the founder of Virgin
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Airlines Bill Clinton who um won the
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prestigious Ted prize you're looking at
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a woman who was publicly silent more
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partners and fewer
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terrorists with more productive citizens
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and they even got director JJ Abrams
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when I talked to the uh the kind rep
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from Ted and I said listen you know what
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what should I talk about uh he said
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don't worry about it just just be
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profound anyway the list goes on and the
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following years that list gets even
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longer however despite the quality of
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their speakers and ideas the online
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viewers simply weren't satisfied they
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wanted more to which Chris politely
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responds why don't you make your own
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introducing Ted X the idea is simple
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give everyone the ability to host their
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own Ted Talk genius right but can't I
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just get a stage and get a bunch of
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speakers and do the same thing no are
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you fing kidding me you really think
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people are going to listen to some guy
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standing on a stage with no red letters
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behind him of course not but that's okay
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just pay us and we'll send you your own
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it'll have a little Watermark indicating
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that you're nothing but trust me no
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one's going to notice for a little while
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these Ted X talks were pretty good but
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very soon things took a turn for the
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worst and the biggest red flag was right
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there from the start the surprising
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thing about today's meeting is that we
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here at Ted have had almost nothing to
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do with it now a huge chunk of Ted's
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brain is something they admit they have
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nothing to do with it was obvious the
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floodgates had opened the barrier to
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entry wasn't just lowered it was
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obliterated even though they added the X
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most people see them as one and the same
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Ted X ruined Ted's public perception for
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the longest time I didn't know the
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difference I suspect a lot of people are
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the same people start asking questions
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like what ideas could a 5-year-old
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possibly have that are worth spreading
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talking about why kids should have an
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hourong recess and I said Mr Ganer I
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really want to play Scaro Tarantella by
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wowski and he just
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went I you are not capable of that and I
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was angry but I was determined because I
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had played this piece before yeah if
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you're teacher says you're not ready for
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something it's most likely because you
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are not
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[Music]
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sounds like she put too much frosin on
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her
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bow look at her wrist it's so
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[Music]
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tight Ted has become a brand machine
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turning complex ideas into 18-minute
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viral cable chunks perfect for
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Consultants looking to beef up their
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credentials remember when Chris said
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this no selling no corporate
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famous last word this is the my
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[Music]
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roast it is a 2 Kil rooster also comes
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in a 5 kilo model made entirely of
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stainless steel no selling no corporate
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bu no more need for any kind of school
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certifications or proof of any kind that
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you've mastered your craft to earn
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credibility all you need is an uplifting
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and engaging story then you can sit back
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and let the big red letters do the rest
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many people who seek to we the power of
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the letters are relatively harmless
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using them for nothing more than to
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roleplay as Silicon Valley
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Visionaries but some for much more
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selfish reasons or even downright evil
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ones at the 2014 Ted Med or medical
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conference a lady named Elizabeth Holmes
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takes the stage to speak about her
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revolutionary new device that she claims
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has the potential to disrupt the evil
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medical industry an industry that makes
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billions of dollars a year off people's
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s suffering well not anymore the health
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and
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well-being of every
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person of those we
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love is a basic human
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right is your left foot itching and
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you're worrying you might have scabies
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have you swallowed a battery and
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wondering how long until you turn into
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Mr Electric well in this talk Elizabeth
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basically promises that with one prick
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of the finger this device can determine
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that I got to say I'm
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sold H uh-oh in November a judge
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sentenced her to more than 11 years in
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prison after she raised many millions of
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dollars from investors by making false
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claims about her company turns out all
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of it was a lie and even with actual
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scientists calling it out from the very
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start this lie was still somehow able to
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make it all the way to store shelves
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patients were misdiagnosed with
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everything from diabetes to cancer she
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was able to trick people out of millions
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of dollars and make it under the cover
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of Forbes by tricking people into
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thinking she knew what she was talking
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about that is the power behind the red
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letters Ted knows it they also know that
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now the people do to
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2009 I met a thought leader and I asked
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him how did you become a thought leader
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and you know what he said he said I
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don't
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know now that doesn't sound important
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and it's not I see Ted Talks mentioned
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more often again however in a rather
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negative way like well after he's done
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spending all that Kickstarter money and
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running the company into the ground he
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can always go write a book about it and
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hold a lame Ted talk to promote it I
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lost my job because I used my corporate
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car on my gambling accounts things got
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to the point where people started to
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criticize Ted on their own platform some
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would go up and make the speech topic
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problems they have with Ted and others
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would do talks about nothing at all just
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to prove how easy it was to get a
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[Applause]
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talk can I have this water
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here give me like 25 seconds here
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give me like 10 more seconds and after
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this wave of Pate things got a little
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more serious with some referring to it
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as a cult there's talks online about an
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early Joe Rogan episode featuring Eddie
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hang who was kicked out for not
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following their cult-like orders however
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this video and all traces of the episode
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are taken down but this isn't all too
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uncharacteristic of them as they've been
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known to do their fair share of banning
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speakers whose ideas they deemed not
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worthy of spreading but the ones they
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didn't allow seemed pretty tame to me
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they banned Nick hanauer's talk named
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rich people don't create jobs the talk
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was deemed too political and never put
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online in 2013 rert sheldrick was banned
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for giving a talk called exposing
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scientific dogmas and after removing the
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video Ted released a brief statement
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about their reasoning behind the band we
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feel a responsibility not to provide a
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platform for talks which appear to have
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crossed the line into pseudo science
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I'll just let that sink in let me just
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remind you all that aside from the
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little Theos slip up these are the same
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people who let this lady talk about why
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superhero posing in the bathroom is
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scientifically proven to better your
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health the people who can use it the
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most are the ones with no resources and
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no technology and no status and no power
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give it to them because they can do it
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in private they need their bodies
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privacy and two minutes and it can
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significantly change the outcomes of
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their life This was later proven to be
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false by another scientific study which
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showed it's 100% proven to make you look
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like a idiot anyway pretty
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recently Ted did something that seems to
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be an acknowledgement of their past
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mistakes showing that they agree the
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conference has strayed far from its
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original Mission earlier this year they
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decided to
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change they're sorry they're not
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changing anything things that we're kind
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of evolving they are evolving their
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tagline this is third evolution this is
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Raichu from ideas worth spreading
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to ideas change
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everything what does that even mean one
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of the things that we're kind of
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evolving is our tagline in our mission
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statement from ideas we're ex spreading
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to ideas change everything
