Category: TED

Live Blogging from DOM 6

Kenichiro  Mongi from Sony showed the following viral video from TED on human leadership behavior:

Right now John Weng from Michigan State is telling us about his view that there are 5 chunks of a brain-mind model: development,  architecture, area, space and time. His mantra: you need a deep understanding of  computer to understand the brain. Hmmm.

Andrew Sullivan on TED

I find myself disagreeing with Andrew on much of what he writes about these days, but I think he and others on to something about the future of higher education in his blog post here. In essence, TED represents the future of higher ed.  Along with MIT’s Open Course Ware. But this can’t be all of it. You can’t acquire a deep knowledge of quantum mechanics from a few “carefully curated” lectures–even if those are given by geniuses.