Intersecting Emerging Tech and Society – Juan Enriquez
This is good, once you get past the pedestrian observations about the economic crisis:
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March 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Mark: This TED Talk is a good example of the treasure trove that is the TED archive.
I am also glad to see you using visuals to add punch to your blog The cartoon of Newt in a recent post is a good example, as is this TED talks image. Visuality works!
March 4th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Hi Dave,
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I agree with you on the power of visuality – it’s powerful enough that care needs to be exercised to make sure that the image aligns well with the concept. I sometimes visit David Armano’s site, Logic & Emotion, which I first saw linked over at Thoughts Illustrated; Armano is a very effective and talented designer, so much so that his images sometimes overpower the concept ( HOWEVER – that’s a blog post level, not finished work, just like my posts are not to be regarded as books)
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Like poetry, some images are aesthetically open to wide interpretation. Note the visceral anger some political cartoons have recently raised ( Danish cartoons of Muhammed, New Yorker cover of Obama, recent cartoon in – if I recall the Post). It’s hard to imagine an oral or textual argument that was identical receivng the same attention or level of outrage. I would have to go back to Salman Rushdie’s Satantic Verses or 1970 & 1980 efforts to ban Catcher in the Rye from schools to find literary equivalents.