Cary does TED

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3 Replies to “Cary does TED”

Fantastic. A real communicator in action. An excellent exercise of rhetoric (in the best sense). A talk of 17’10” and only 11 slides and an audience completed “glued” in the words. The message will pass on …

Great talk.

It’s a wonderful talk, very well argued. I met Cary in Stockholm a long time ago. He and Roy Pat Mooney are the heros of our time, in a very humble and unassuming way.

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Published on August 27, 2026