Humanity

            This weeks Ted Talks video was presented by Aaron Koblin. He touched upon the diversity of thought among us. He uses technology to show us that we all have different ways to do the same simple task. One of his experiments was with drawing sheep. He offered 2 cents to every person who drew him a sheep. Now these sheep varied immensely, there were sheep that were small, sheep that were big. There were sheep that that were stick figures, and sheep that looked like a real sheep. He showed us that when asked to do a task like this we all have different ways to go about it. The time in making these sheep varied as well, one person took 45 minutes, while one person took 4 seconds. Only one person bothered to ask why he was asked to draw a sheep, shows that no one really cared as long as they got their two cents. The interesting thing was when Aaron zoomed out of all the pictures so we could see them together, and how similar they looked. He is proving that no matter how we all go about doing things, we will arrive at the same location.  Everyone can go about doing something completely different, but in the end is it really that different? It is very similar, because they all came to the same conclusion.

            Aaron Koblin also showed an airplane map, which I found to be very interesting. You could locate the main cities in the country just because to where most of the planes were flying. I also found the map of Amsterdam with the cell phone interference to be very cool. They showed that in the center of the city there was more use of cell phones. On new years there was a very large spike at mid night. This really makes you think, how many of those calls were called to say I love you? Aaron Koblin did an excellent job showing the human kind, and how we’ve changed, without really changing at all.