TED

1. What is TED organization about?
----The TED program is devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and wants to bring technology, entertainment, and design together. Its web site has tons of videos about new and bright ideas.

2. What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?
----The purpose of the site is to spread ideas that are revolutionary and inetesting. The website is comprised of tons of videos of prefessional's talks about these ideas.

3. As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.
----I would say that "Technology" and "Design" categories are most relevant to our class. Engineering is all about reinventing designs and making them better, and technology can be a way to do that.

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

• "Breakthrough Designs for ultra low-cost products" is one because part of engineering is making products cheaper and easier to produce.
• "Using Natue in architecture" is intersesting because some animals and plants have such great desings that allow them to survive, and if some of those designs could be put to architecture it could make buildings much stronger and efficeient.
• "Haiti's engineering disaster" is also interesting because the earthquake, although it was bad, wouldn't have caused as uch damage if Hait's buildings would have been better built.

Michael Pawlyn says some really interesting things in his video.

• he says that in nature lots of things are in closed loops. We should intergrate this into our lives               ------ For Example, we should have restraunts with their own ponds, greenhouses, and and waste centers. The greenhouses create plants which can be used for food, ponds which are stocked with fish and fed worms from greenhouse. And waste centers that get rid of trash and create electricity while doing so.
• We need to switch from fossil fuels to solar. The sun gives us 10,000X the energy than we create from all forms. Thats a lot of potential energy that can be harvested.

6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?
----It might be hard to get involved with these things at my age, but I'd like later on. Maybe some knowledge in environmental sciences would help me with this. And this is a huge field right now as we are starting to switch to a "green" society.