TEDラインアップに日本人建築家

5月に行われたTED Tokyoの中で建築家坂茂さんの講演がTEDのチャンネルで紹介されていたんですね。MitraさんのTed動画を探しているときに気づきました。世界的にも有名な方ですから、TED登場は遅すぎるくらいですね。



マルコムグラドウェルやサンデル教授もTEDに登場していました。といってもご自身の新刊について語っているだけですが。。。

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (2013/10/03) Malcolm Gladwell 商品詳細を見る

新刊『David and Goliath』については予想通り（?）、ほとんどの書評で酷評されています（苦笑）エコノミストの書評も短いもので、扱いもひどかったです。。。

Malcolm Gladwell
Canned ham
Winning is better than losing, and other words of counterintuitive wisdom
Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition

Mr Gladwell’s earlier books, particularly “The Tipping Point”, his first, were genuinely thought-provoking. This one is about as insightful as a fortune cookie. Read something else.


BOOKSHELF
Book Review: 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell too often presents as proven laws what are just intriguing possibilities and musings about human behavior.
By CHRISTOPHER F. CHABRIS
Updated Sept. 28, 2013 7:59 p.m. ET

One thing "David and Goliath" shows is that Mr. Gladwell has not changed his own strategy, despite serious criticism of his prior work. What he presents are mostly just intriguing possibilities and musings about human behavior, but what his publisher sells them as, and what his readers may incorrectly take them for, are lawful, causal rules that explain how the world really works. Mr. Gladwell should acknowledge when he is speculating or working with thin evidentiary soup. Yet far from abandoning his hand or even standing pat, Mr. Gladwell has doubled down. This will surely bring more success to a Goliath of nonfiction writing, but not to his readers.

といっても彼の本は読みやすいので、とりあえず何か英語で読んでみたい方には選択肢の一つとして選んでもいいのではないでしょうか。日本語翻訳版は勝間さんがまた登場するのですかねえ。