Is TED the new Harvard?

When you list Elizabeth Gilbert and Tony Robbins, you make it plausible that TED is the new Renaissance Weekend, if you remember those.

Or maybe the new Aspen State.

Umm no.

Deep brain-churning scholarship is hard! Let's have spiffy whizzy pop science talks!

(TED can be interesting, but this article is WTF.)

Maybe.

One of TED's purposes is to bring together people with ideas and people with the capital and influence to make them happen.

No.