TED talks
I watched several TED talks today and found them both very fascinating. I watched Bill McDonough, Jeff Han speak and Ken Robinson. I also watched
What Bill had to say was most fascinating. He talked about his cradle to cradle design theory. The idea is to make design a sustainable loop. If we do not adopt this design method and keep on using un sustainable materials terrible things will happen. In china, within the next twelve years by using bricks to build enough buildings to house their growing population they will drain all of the natural resources in their soil and use up all their coal. His city plan for a city in china was to lift the farm land up, and have the city under neath with bridges on the roofs to connect the farm land.
Jeff Han Han spoke about multiple touch interface and the programs you can create that utilizes this technology. I thought this was very exciting and the possibilities for this technology is very scalable. This technology can be Incorporated in a large number of fields. The first thing i think of is medicine. For a sensitive open heart or brain surgery an interface like the multi touch could give doctors almost infinite flexibility that is much harder to achieve with a joystick.
Ken Robinson spoke about public education. His main point was that public education all around the world destroys our creativity by putting to much of an emphasis on mathematics and linguistics, and stigmatizing the arts. According to him a fundamental part of creativity is not being afraid to make mistakes, and our current education system trains us to fear making mistakes. I thought that this point was a valid one, however i wish he could have proposed a solution instead of just stating the problem.
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