The Breakthrough Dialogues: Innovating Ideas

Big Think: TED meetings, Aspen Institutes, SXSW, and Sundance are all billed as “thought-leader gatherings” where “rock stars” emerge from their “silos” to learn about “disruptive” ideas that have been carefully “curated,” as New York magazine recently described. Yet in America's polarized culture, are these events as ideologically diverse and cross-cutting as they should be?