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About Me

As of now, Dan Fonseca is on track as a Candidate for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications at Northeastern University with a minor in Music Industry and Business Administration. A creative being at heart, he loves to play his guitar and piano whenever he’s in a musical mood. Dan spent his childhood years living in Japan and traveling around the world with his family. With two Colombian parents, he is fluent in Spanish and speaks conversational French. He believes in the experiential learning process and understands the importance of making mistakes. Trying to understand his complex, ever-changing world, Dan Fonseca has decided to start a blog. Enjoy.

Location:
United States, Saddle River, NJ
Gender:
Male
I am:
Artist, Blogger, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Social entrepreneur, Student, Technologist
Languages:
English
My website links:
My Blog - "Synapses"
Universities:
Northeastern University in Boston MA
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I'm passionate about

Big Thinking - www.danfonseca.wordpress.com

An idea worth spreading

Free High Speed Internet as a human right

Talk to me about

Perspective, innovation, and efficiency

People don't know that I'm good at

Music, French, Cooking, and Running

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    A comment on Talk: David Brooks: The social animal

    Mar 14 2011: 90% of our communication is done non-verbally
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    A comment on Conversation: Social network movements .. Could this be the end of politics as we know it?

    Feb 20 2011: There are a lot of forces at work in the current revolutionary situation and I don't think you can give all the credit to social media. In the incredibly fast times of today's world, big and often slow governments with their bureaucracy often can not react fast enough to deal with issues. It is the social media that helps us organize faster and channel our voice better than conventional means. In the future governments will still run the country but the rise of transparency and upward communication will make them smaller. Maybe smaller government is a good thing? Social media also is hard to squash so voices of decent will be hard to eradicate and institutions like wikileaks will serve as a deterrent to unjust government actions.
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    A comment on Conversation: What is your mantra for work-life balance?

    Feb 18 2011: As a young person, I look to my future often. I spend my days in college going to classes and learning as much as I can through simply "living life." However, lately, I have begun to see a trend growing among my peers. A collective dissatisfaction with how we value success. What are we striving towards?

    Why should we work our entire lives? Regardless if you attach a religious element to it, why spend your one valuable life on earth working away when there is so much to experience and love?

    Our materialistic world brainwashes us and makes money the end all be all in our lives. Might I ask, why? Maybe it's time we slow down and enjoy our the simple things in life. Ultimately, you have to make a decision. Either keep up with the pace of competition and always find yourself at work OR take a back seat and understand there are more important things in life. We have to be courageous enough to leave behind our materialistic, competitive nature and focus on our more limited resource; time.

    -Dan

    www.danfonseca.wordpress.com
    www.twitter.com/whoisdanfonseca

  • A reply on Conversation: With the internet leveling the information advantage gap, will universities play such a pivotal role in higher education in the future?

    Feb 18 2011: Hey Max,

    I really like that response! As we both mentioned, experience seems to be at the heart of true education. Most people understand that theory is one thing while practice is another, essentially the divide between "book" smart and "street" smart. With the internet filling in that "book" smart role incredibly well, education has to be taken to the streets, literally. The question is, how?

    As an American,I look to my European counterparts and their common "gap year" with envy. This may sound a little critical but if American society didn't coerce us to immediately starting college, I think we could learn a lot from a little time of to grow. Like I hinted at before, maybe use that time to travel? Write a book? Start a business? How about simply working and earning some cash?

    I just feel that society pushes us around so that we can walk out of an institution with a fancy piece of paper that says we payed an enormous amount of money in order to get a "so-so" education. Can't we be more efficient? More innovative? More creative? I think yes. I just want to know how can we do it? What are the models out there? We can certainly do better.

    Best,

    -Dan

    p.s. I can't delete all those comments, maybe you can? If not hopefully TED will!

  • A comment on Conversation: Should Google and Bing be invited to play Jeopardy against Watson.

    Feb 18 2011: I would absolutely LOVE to see that! I am a little bias towards IBM so I will always be rooting for him/them.

  • A comment on Conversation: With the internet leveling the information advantage gap, will universities play such a pivotal role in higher education in the future?

    Feb 18 2011: Looking forward to some great stuff! TED community don't fail me now!

  • A reply on Talk: Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

    Oct 4 2010: Jet, I am sure we are just SCRATCHING the surface of the possibilities!

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