Summary Of Steven Johnson's Ted Talk

Steven Johnson’s Ted Talk was right on the concepts of Connectivism. As the saying goes, “No man is an island.” Good ideas come from shared thoughts from different people. We sometimes rely on other people to create new ideas. Johnson said that “a new idea is a new network of neurons firing and synch with each other inside your brain.” We get a new idea (aha! moment) from something that already exists. Jane Mcgonigal explains that we see clues or signals that lead to developing future forecasts about the state of technology in the world.

Mcgonigal states, “we think about the future to find out what’s possible.” Every invention was created from ideas based on what we see as possible for the future. “To create something new, you have to be