TED Talk #2: Kwabena Boahen

1. What are your take-aways from this video?

• The Human brain and the fastest computer in the world, Blue Jean, can process at the same speed at 10 to the 16th power bits per second. However, Blue Jean uses the same amount of electricity as 1,200 houses while the human brain uses about as much power as a laptop.
• As the technology capacity of computers and memory chips increases in holding ability but decreases in size, the computer will actually get slower and crash more often.

2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?

• Boahen uses humor in his TED Talk to add some fun to his presentation.
• He doesn't just talk about his topic, he also talks about his power point going on behind him which I think makes it easier to follow what he's talking about because of the complexity of it.

3. What is his/her presentation style?

• Boahen walks around the stage while presenting instead of just standing in one place the whole time he talks.
• He uses a laser pointer to focus the audience's attention on certain things in the slide show behind him.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?

•  This video matters because it is showing everyone how much more advanced the human brain really is compared to the super computers of the world, even though many people believe that some computer can actually do more than the human brain can.
•  This video matters to me personally because my generation is growing up in a world where super computers aren't science fiction but they are happening now.
• This video matters to education because it may change the way students learn in a class room. More and more schools now have laptops in the classrooms and that number will most likely continue to grow.
• This video also matter to education because this information may open up new jobs, colleges, and research to create new technology that is both spacious, functional, and fast.
• This video matters to the world because  Boahen and his colleagues are trying to build a computer that is modeled after the part of your brain called the retina, which is in the eye, and this could change the world if they succeed.