Netflix announces one more solution to the complaint that “there’s nothing intelligent to watch on TV” with the addition of streaming TEDTalks. The TED conferences are private events organized by the nonprofit organization Sapling Foundation. Entry fees are as high as $7,500 to attend. TED conferences started in 1984 to bring together people from three different specialties: technology, entertainment, and design. Today, that scope has broadened significantly, but they remain true to their mantra of offering “ideas worth spreading.”
A typical TEDTalk speaker gives an eighteen minute long presentation, but Netflix opts to bundle the talks together into two hour long collections of speeches, organized into fourteen different categories. Some of the talks are quite inspiring or thought-provoking, including one of my favorites given by Sugata Mitra on how kids can teach themselves, even in environments where most adults would wrongly assume a formal educator was needed.
TEDTalks even received a public awareness boost recently when Prometheus, the upcoming tangential-prequel movie to the Alien franchise,released a viral video of Guy Pearce giving a TEDtalk as Peter Weyland in the year 2023.
At the very least, the $7.99 per month Netflix streaming subscription is 938 times cheaper than attending just one of these conferences in real life!
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