TED Community » Morten Faarkrog
About Me
My name is Morten and I am currently a student at "The University of Nottingham", England, where I study "BA (Hons) Management Studies", however, I will be moving to Copenhagen, Denmark, during the summer of 2012 to start a new degree in Computer Science since I have found out that this is what I am really passionate about. I describe myself as an information sponge and I love to gather new information in a variety of ways, and this is also the main reason that I am here at TED.com - it's a lovely way to hear/watch the lovely intuitive creations and ideas human beings have.
- Location:
- Denmark, Copenhagen
- Current organization:
- Copenhagen University
- Past organizations:
- The University of Nottingham
- Current role:
- Student (MSci Computer Science)
- Gender:
- Male
- I am:
- Atheist, Idea generator, Student
- Languages:
- English, Danish
More About Me
I'm passionate about
In short: technology and science.
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Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
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Susan Cain: The power of introverts
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Furthermore, it is a bit ironic that you wrote a comment about disliking technology using technology yourself :D !
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Beautiful short clip :) !
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I have gained a lot of wonderful habits since then (such as exercising daily and taking at least 1 photograph a day).
For instance, this month I am learning a new programming language :) !
Highly recommended talk.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- G. B. Shaw
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I believe that in order to try to predict the future one must look back in history to see what went well (and why), and what went wrong (and why). Having said that, some parts of history may be irrelevant and should not, in my opinion, be taught in school. I do not think that history will be 'lost' this way since some people will always have a keen interest in the field of history.
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Do you know when or if you will be launching your product in the EU? Avoiding huge shipping costs and a 12.5% tax (if I remember correctly) would be nice :) !