The History of our World in 18 minutes by David Christian is a fascinating talk to anyone out there. I was looking for something with relevance to science and I came across this video on Youtube. It is an interesting topic that many with religious views could just pass because of their beliefs. Although many people believe that the world was created in a religious way, I believe that this TED talk could be important and that The Big History will show you the complexity of our planet.
David Christian’s purpose for this talk is to educate children and future generations to come. His goal is to create an online syllabus so high school students worldwide can be educated to learn what he's calling "Big History" which is his idea of how the universe was created. In regards to this, he is …show more content…
Since science is such a magnificent topic, why wouldn’t anybody want to know how this occurred? But he focuses mostly on a particular audience more than others. Children and future generations are the main audience for the speakers talk. He tries to spread the word to everybody about his project on the Big History. The speaker would bring up the Goldilock’s condition. Which means that Earth is in the perfect distance from the sun unlike the rest of the planets to support life. Another major component to this talk was about the Six thresholds. The list of the thresholds are: The Big Bang, The Stars Light up, New Chemical Elements, Earth and the Solar System, Life on Earth, Collective Learning, Agriculture, and The Modern Revolution. And in that list he focuses that humans are the seventh threshold. Mr. Christian mentions Fried Spier on the Goldilock’s condition. That the world is, “Not too hot, not too cold, just right for the creation of complexity.” (David Christian). He also brings up Eric Beinhocker on information about SKUs. But was this enough to convince me if his talk was
David Christian’s purpose for this talk is to educate children and future generations to come. His goal is to create an online syllabus so high school students worldwide can be educated to learn what he's calling "Big History" which is his idea of how the universe was created. In regards to this, he is …show more content…
Since science is such a magnificent topic, why wouldn’t anybody want to know how this occurred? But he focuses mostly on a particular audience more than others. Children and future generations are the main audience for the speakers talk. He tries to spread the word to everybody about his project on the Big History. The speaker would bring up the Goldilock’s condition. Which means that Earth is in the perfect distance from the sun unlike the rest of the planets to support life. Another major component to this talk was about the Six thresholds. The list of the thresholds are: The Big Bang, The Stars Light up, New Chemical Elements, Earth and the Solar System, Life on Earth, Collective Learning, Agriculture, and The Modern Revolution. And in that list he focuses that humans are the seventh threshold. Mr. Christian mentions Fried Spier on the Goldilock’s condition. That the world is, “Not too hot, not too cold, just right for the creation of complexity.” (David Christian). He also brings up Eric Beinhocker on information about SKUs. But was this enough to convince me if his talk was