TED is a tavistock operation.
They use the Delphi method to manufacture elite "consensus".
It has the same purpose as the Bildenburg group, Trilateral commission, CFR and Davos.
The big boys on top, set the agenda, then the groups below them go out and "build consensus ", to get everyone on board with the agenda.
They rule through the Delphi method.
Nobility, the royality, the intergenerational elites who own the banks and corporations. This is how they rule over the economic, military and political elites.
They use the Delphi method and "indirect management". The people do not even know they are controlled.
They merely exclude everyone outside the overton window, they are pushing.
insider: TED eliminated scientific elites from the conference, because they are harder to control. Their beliefs are not subjective and they put people in contact with people, the top level cannot control easily. Their influence is undesirable.
It is safer to steer people into subjective things and complete bullshit and aware from "hard" or objective subjects, where facts and reality matter.
They want people thinking about "Social Justice" and "Gay Rights", not why people are getting poorer or whether global warming is a completely faked boondoggle to make money while creating new international institutions of social control.