TED Talk Response #4

TED Talk by Clay Shirky

1. Making crisis mapping public. Cognitive surplus. The ability of the world's population to volunteer and come together on shared and possibly world wide projects. People have free time, media tools, modivation and technology to use to come together to help. Which makes me wonder, what kind of world projects have been most effective through using these things? Media landscape is expanding. Any creative act should be put out into the world because it can be improved and redone and expanded on. He brought up "LOL Cats" and I was confused to how this connected to his presentation. Freedom to experiment is important in society. Our society should be design for generosity. Cognitive surplus and different motivation designs. Culture that is broken stays broken. Material with communal value is created by people for each other that should be shared between people. Material with civic value is created by participants, but enjoyed by people for a whole and is used to make life better for everyone in the society that enjoys it. This partially explains why he brough up the "LOL Cats", but I'm still confused why he used that example. What other kinds of things are considered to have civic value? People have around a trillion hours of extra time each year that can be put toward working together and helping. Supporting cognitive surplus can lead to more civic value. I think that the free time that the world has can be put to use. Collaberation and talents can be put together to make a difference.
2. The presenter's speaking techniques were not very effective. He talked very quickly and jumbled words together often. He was hard to follow and could have spoken in a more interesting tone of voice.
3. The speaker's presentation style was very informative and straightforward, however he didn't really connect to people. He expressed his opinions and talked to hard facts, which got his point across, but not in a very interesting or engaging way. He also was very scatterbrained in his presentation style. He would bring up an idea, not complete it, then stray away to another idea, and without completeing it, return to his first unfinished idea. This unorganized presenting made me think that he may not be the right person for this presentation because he was talking about how organizing people together can help make a difference in the world. An unorganized speaker talking about an idea that requires organization... huh.
4. This idea is important because it is a way for people to use their time and talents to come together and make a difference in this world. This connects to me personally because I know as a young American, I can join together with people and make a difference. This connects to education because this can be related to our Warrior Week. We came together as a school to collect money and make a difference in cancer patient's lives. This connects to the world because if we use the cognitive surplus we have as a whole world population, we can seriously change the world for everyone.