How I survived a terrorist attack, TED Talk

The talk started with the speaker telling us about their experience of a terrorist attack. The speakers legs had been taken in the attack and they were now supported by prosthetic limbs. She tells us she felt loved and that is what kept her alive, this is what helped her to not feel hate or vengeance. When she was saved she wore a tag that said: Unknown, Estimated, Female. In that moment she realised that she wasn’t considered as a white Australian woman, she was just simply a human and that didn’t matter. She was human and that is why she was saved, I think this is brilliant it didn’t matter about her skin colour, her race, her nationality, religious beliefs, job or anything just that she was a life. All the talks I have looked into have linked to the idea of thinking outside the box but this was not anything to do with that. Humans saved other humans without thinking it was second nature yet in everyday life we have problems with equality. This is where we need to think outside the box.

What can we learn from shortcuts? TED Talk

This is one of my biggest flaws I think I have to admit. I take away from this talk that research is key, I do feel I research but I research to fit my needs more than to fit the needs of a client or a brief. I know how to create a vector image so why not start with that and take the easy way out, I know that talk was speaking about putting these shortcuts in to help clients and customers but I took a deeper meaning. If you really look into what the client would like or what the brief is asking you to do you can take away so much more and like the other TED talks I have looked into still stay creative don’t close off your mind to thinking outside the box but also don’t use this as an excuse to do lazy mediocre work. Always give it your all and the problem might even solve itself.

Why you think you’re right even if you’re wrong, TED Talk

For starters were only human right? So when we believe in something that we have been taught or brought up to believe it is going to take more than a bit of factual information to tell us we are wrong. What I can understand from this is, as humans we are brought up to be stubborn. Like the last TED talk I spoke about I am going to bring up that we need to think creatively and outside the box we need to think differently to one another. We bounce opinions off each other to try to better understand life but we have one fatal flaw admitting we are wrong. It is so hard to stop believing in something but if we didn’t in the first place then how could we have been proven wrong. We have to think about all the different wonders of life so that we can keep moving forward. My opinion is that belief is what keeps us going and creatively thinking is what moves us forward.

How Computers are becoming creative, TED Talk -

Brains are like wiring in a computer so why not computers be like the synapses in brains. Such simple solution, from when we are young we are taught differences between animals and objects we know what a bird looks like and we know what a picture of a bird but we do not know how our brain figures that out but by using algebra we can. It is just an estimate but from such a small idea something huge has been created, something beautiful. Teaching a machine how to create is such a brilliant concept in short someone thought outside the box on a big scale and it created a whole new world. The imagination needed to bring this to our attention really amazes me and just shows how much the human brain can do. This is also a great topic in my opinion because it is showing that science and ‘academic’ are not so different from art and design you need creativity in the way you think otherwise we would all be talking in ones and zeros.