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If you haven't seen The Onion's[1] Onion Talks and want a good satirical criticism of TED, I highly recommend them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q

(There are more if you want to find them, I didn't want to pollute commentspace with too many links)

[1] The Onion is a satire newspaper, one of the first newspapers to heavily adopt an online format. They just killed their print edition for good last year.



Sam Hyde's 2070 Paradigm Shift is also a great parody (delivered at an actual TEDx event) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0


We looked at the data. WE LOOKED AT THE DATA.


>They just killed their print edition for good last year.

Minor nit - only because it's so recent. They just killed their print edition for good last week. Thursday, to be exact. I know they dropped a bunch of cities last year though so maybe you're thinking of that.


Ha! This one feels relevant :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o


That was made last year? Wow. That's surprisingly prescient.


> [1] The Onion is a satire newspaper, one of the first newspapers to heavily adopt an online format. They just killed their print edition for good last year.

The Onion originated online actually. The print edition was mostly an experiment.


The Onion has been in print since 1988, and wasn't online until 1996. Source: The Washington Post [1].

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11...




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