TED Talks review analysis
TED Analysis
The TED presentation that I viewed was, Jason Pontin’s: Can technology solve our big problems? Jason Pontin is currently the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review, and routinely investigates to find out what technologies currently in our world are going to “get us there.” Pontin has been editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review since 2004 and publisher since 2005. After 2005 Pontin begin a transition to digital-first magazines and reduced the number of annual print issues from eleven to six, also refocusing the energy toward original daily content. From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of the Red Herring magazine. Pontin believes that we are not currently utilizing our current technology to solve these “big problems” and instead are using technology to enrich and expand our personal lives. Pontin’s perception on technology and our advancement of mankind is very interesting and raises a big question and awareness as to where we are going as a society.
To begin the presentation, Pontin starts off by discussing the 1969 expedition to the moon and the background of the mission. He states that it cost a total of 180 billion dollars of federal money that as 4% of the entire federal budget at the time. There was over 400,000 people employed and 20,000 different organizations that were part of the Apollo mission. A total of 24 people flew on Apollo and some people died. Pontin then explains how this was all a collective effort from everyone involved and ended up being the biggest technological advancement of our time. Pontin asks, why did we go? Many would say because Kennedy wanted to, to beat the Soviets in the race for space during the Cold War. But he says that all of this is not true, that we as a nation wanted to go simply because it was a big thing to do. It created lots of excitement and hope in the nation and opened a lot of people’s eyes to where we could go and what we could do with the advancements in our technology.
The TED presentation that I viewed was, Jason Pontin’s: Can technology solve our big problems? Jason Pontin is currently the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review, and routinely investigates to find out what technologies currently in our world are going to “get us there.” Pontin has been editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review since 2004 and publisher since 2005. After 2005 Pontin begin a transition to digital-first magazines and reduced the number of annual print issues from eleven to six, also refocusing the energy toward original daily content. From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of the Red Herring magazine. Pontin believes that we are not currently utilizing our current technology to solve these “big problems” and instead are using technology to enrich and expand our personal lives. Pontin’s perception on technology and our advancement of mankind is very interesting and raises a big question and awareness as to where we are going as a society.
To begin the presentation, Pontin starts off by discussing the 1969 expedition to the moon and the background of the mission. He states that it cost a total of 180 billion dollars of federal money that as 4% of the entire federal budget at the time. There was over 400,000 people employed and 20,000 different organizations that were part of the Apollo mission. A total of 24 people flew on Apollo and some people died. Pontin then explains how this was all a collective effort from everyone involved and ended up being the biggest technological advancement of our time. Pontin asks, why did we go? Many would say because Kennedy wanted to, to beat the Soviets in the race for space during the Cold War. But he says that all of this is not true, that we as a nation wanted to go simply because it was a big thing to do. It created lots of excitement and hope in the nation and opened a lot of people’s eyes to where we could go and what we could do with the advancements in our technology.