Clay Shirky TED Talk

Clay Shirky infused some great ideas into his TED talk about cognitive surplus. This new idea, that anyone creative has the power to introduce a new idea online is getting even more popular as I see it. New sites and new ideas pop up on the internet every single day. Now, Clay had a very interesting point that went along with this. Without the technological era that we are in, and the creativity of people, these ideas would not be possible. This is why he says basically technology is shaping the way that we come up with new ideas because it is like a whole new dimension. His second round of thoughts were about punishments and their effects. He talked about an experiment where a punishment was put in place at a day care center where if the parents were late, there would be a fee. This simply made the parents come later because they figured that it wasnt bad paying a little to be late. Then, once the fee was taken away the same behavior still applied. Now, I thought that this TED talk was a little confusing, and maybe its because I was sick, but I watched it again today and it still didn't make total sense. I think that part of this was the way that he talked. Clay made it difficult for me to understand what he was trying to get at because of his jumpy talking technique. He would jump from one thing to another and his whole talk seemed like is wasn't very linear. This confused me a lot and I wish that I could talk to him in person to ask him a few questions about his very interesting ideas. But, besides the talking, I thought that his presentation was fabulous. His presentation style was a little different than others because it used the slide show as more of a main tool than a background helper. I thought that this was pretty effective in the end because he had to use a lot of graphs that needed to be pointed at and a lot of pictures that needed to be explained. So basically he adapted his presentation style to what his talk needed. What mattered in this video, I think, will matter most in the future. A lot of the ideas that he presented will be carried out in the future. Creative acts turning into mass projects funded by the people themselves. These kids of ideas, like I said before, are popping up everywhere and are becoming more frequent. Not only the LOL cats are popular any more but others like EPIC FAIL are starting to rise. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I hope to look more into some of Clay's other TED talk.