Big Thinkers: What's the Big Idea?
After watching many different "ideas" on the topic of "How will this age be remembered?" I have found that these two opinions caught my attention most. In the first video, Deepak Chopra gives us an unexpected view of our world today. Despite our current superficial belief that this age of technology has revolutionized human involvement in the world, his belief is that humans still remain barbaric. Mr. Chopra makes humans in the twenty first century sound like cavemen from the beginning of time. Yet, his view of our current world is logical, for we do continue to kill each other in wars over religion and land, while destroying the Earth. This video has made me realize that humans not only remain in the same mind frame of our ancestors, but we also have not changed our tactics to make the world better, despite our recent efforts and discoveries.
The second video state Kenneth Roth's opinion. He is more optimistic about the world and believes that if change occurs, the world can become a better place. Mr. Roth's opinion is interesting because he comments on terrorism's influence on the world. He says that the world has been overreacting to terrorism and has not been focusing on bigger problems like Global Warming or medical epidemics. This opinion makes sense, for our world can cease to exist if we do not control Global Warming or the current problems with HIV. Terrorism is an important problem, but it seems that a bigger population will be at risk of the other problems are not solved first. Mr. Roth makes an interesting point with this topic and it is important that we realize how our actions will affect the lives of the future generations.
The concept of Big Think brings the opinions of educated people to the internet. We get to hear the opinions of influential people speak about subjects that are important to the development of our world, even if they are controversial. Although Big Think is very intellectual in its ways of spreading news on important subjects, it has not been very successful in reaching young adults and teenagers. It attempts to reach a larger audience by making its access easy to reach, but as the problem always is, there is a lack of interest. In order to reach the younger generation, a more appealing method of media must be used.
The second video state Kenneth Roth's opinion. He is more optimistic about the world and believes that if change occurs, the world can become a better place. Mr. Roth's opinion is interesting because he comments on terrorism's influence on the world. He says that the world has been overreacting to terrorism and has not been focusing on bigger problems like Global Warming or medical epidemics. This opinion makes sense, for our world can cease to exist if we do not control Global Warming or the current problems with HIV. Terrorism is an important problem, but it seems that a bigger population will be at risk of the other problems are not solved first. Mr. Roth makes an interesting point with this topic and it is important that we realize how our actions will affect the lives of the future generations.
The concept of Big Think brings the opinions of educated people to the internet. We get to hear the opinions of influential people speak about subjects that are important to the development of our world, even if they are controversial. Although Big Think is very intellectual in its ways of spreading news on important subjects, it has not been very successful in reaching young adults and teenagers. It attempts to reach a larger audience by making its access easy to reach, but as the problem always is, there is a lack of interest. In order to reach the younger generation, a more appealing method of media must be used.
posted by syndee elle at
9:44 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Cindy! :) Nice layout, btw.
I think that each views connect to each other. Chopra's opinion on how humans are still barbaric relates to Roth's comment on how terrorism affects our world. To me, it seems like Chopra's perspective is that we're not moving forward, but we're taking a step back most of the time when we make a decision. I think that Roth's perspective suggests that we should look at the bigger picture.
I totally agree with you with how Big Think needs to use more appealing method of media, if they want younger audience to visit their site and watch the videos. I mean, as much as I'd like to learn or hear about other people's opinion about certain topics, it wouldn't take me a minute to click on another interesting topic because the expert who was talking bored me during the first 5 seconds of the video.
CINDY! :P
I totally agree with you that the method of Big Thinks approach was not appealing to the youth of today's society. As the youth, we have different interests than others in different age groups. This method of media educated thousands of viewers daily, whether it be controversial or not. With hundreds of influential people speaking out on all types of topics, it creates a development in our world.
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