TED

• TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.


• Their main purpose is to spread their ideas because they "believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world." Due to their site they are able to upload all their new ideas and they are able to share them with the world.


• Technology, science and global issues would be of the best interest to us because as engineers we have to know of global issues going on so that we can come up with ideas to solve them, we use technology for these changes so we need to know about technology and science is a perfect tie to technology and global issues.


• The first video I chose was: We are cyborgs now, this caught my attention and interest as an engineer and problem solver because we are using technology now more than ever. Falling behind with the technology we use now to save our environment and facilitate things would not be something very smart of an engineer to do.The second was Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain, all engineers want to understand how everything works so that they can come up with controls and ways to either copy them or making something better for it. The third was 'Understanding the Rise of China' because we know that china comes up with great technological advances and in many ways we are fighting against them to come up with the next big thing, knowing their advancements help us keep advancing.


• I could get involved in the fiel and study i chose to hear about by doing my own research of communication between people now with all the new technology involved and maybe even do some activities of my own that will back up my opinions and theories about communication with human beings. I can begin to do studies about science advancements that will help me understand the functions of the brain to understand how someone can even begin to clone it. It seems like the biggest skills and training i'll need is just a full study and understanding of such subjects. For example really understand everything that has to do with a subject, analyze everything that will help me see a new perspective or point of view for of the subject for a greater understanding and creativity in ideas that can be possible in the future.