Thursday, March 10, 2011

TED pt I - Ideas worth Spreading?




  • TED is a nonprofit organization that has talks about lots of different topics. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED also has conferences in the US every spring.
  • The purpose of TED is to "spread ideas worth spreading". The site has lots of videos in different topics. The site is really functional because the videos are put into categories.
  • I think the two most relevant topics to our class are technology and science. Both these topics have a lot to do with engineering. The other category that is kind of relevant to our class is design, because our class is called engineering design.
  • The video "reengineering the brain" has a lot to do with engineering. The video "i built a toaster from scratch" has a lot to do with are class because a big part of engineering is building things. "Using nature's genius in architecture" has a lot to do with our visual design elements and principles.
  • This talk is about reengineering the brain to do certain things. He shows how the brain works and how different things effect your decisions and the way you think.
  • The fields that would have things to do with this talk are biotechnology and neurology. If i wanted to get into this field i would need to take a lot of biology and some psycology. I would probably have to major in neuro science in college if i wanted to pursue a job in this field.

1 comment:

  1. I'm very fascinated by this topic, thanks for sharing the talk!

    Good job embedding the video into your post.

    Do you have an interest in these fields?

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