Members Theo Johnson

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  • I'm passionate about

    Music-The world-People who have personalities and who are interesting-Multicolours-Design that makes the world we live in more beautiful-Design that affects the world in a good way-Architecture.

  • An idea worth spreading

    Every human is gifted with a personality of their own, however in modern times people are becoming more robotic, people are forgetting that they can make a difference to this world. A huge example of this is global warming. It is definitely a hard thing to reduce, let alone stop, and we as protectors of this planet have the responsibility to do so. However we do have the tools to do so, whether it's our own hands, or our brains, or each other, and each is as important as the other. If we can utilize what we have we can change it far more easily. If we identify the problem, it is so much easier to address it, and we can address these things by acting as a community, and our community is 6 or so billion strong, we are interconnected as one big family that can do something about our problems. Wherever we go we are surrounded by a big community that will on most occasions help, all we have to do is ask, and be ferocious about what we believe and don't give up, and we will change the world.

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    Everything

  • People don't know that I'm good at

    Thinking- Friends and family may think that i am quiet or unresponsive but most of the time i think deeply about important and unimportant issues. I keep to myself often even if though i if company.

  • Comments

  • TEDCred score: +14

    TEDCred gives you a total score on all your comments on TED.com.

  • +14

    A reply on Talk: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

    Jul 4 2009: You have completely missed his point. The whole point is that Dance and Music IS just as important as Maths and Language for society. As you have said yourself 'Mozart was an incredibly creative composer, yet he never neglected the study of the rules of composition.' I think you put it very well, but it contradicts what you are saying. What that shows is there is a balance that has to be met to make his music.

    You say that maths and language is much more important than music or dance? I believe they are just as important as each other, however idealistic that may seem. You cannot put one over the other, they are just as important as each other. There are natural mathematicians/bankers/artists/dancers in this world, and to benefit the world and get the most out of everything, we have to guide this generation through their own dreams and aims rather than suppress it . It's hard to explain my thoughts with just 1000 letters, but i hope you get the general point.
  • A comment on Talk: Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

    Jul 4 2009: Those last few sentences had quite a big affect on me. Imagine breathing in carbon from the dinosaurs!
  • A comment on Talk: Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

    Jan 25 2009: What Kevin talks about really scares me, and i am sure i am not the only one who feels the same way too. Of course there are parts of what he says that interests me and that i think are good, however what concerns me is the invasion of privacy that we will experience if this change comes about.

    If the web explodes into what Kevin expects it will, then he is basically saying that that it will know everything. He is saying that the web will know everything about you, everything about what you have done, everything that you are doing. There are things in life that we prefer to be private that you don't want other people to know. That is part of us as humans, we are the only ones who will not betray ourselves and we prefer to keep our thoughts to ourselves.

    I am scared that one day governments around the world will be able to see everything we have done, every letter we have sent, every word we have written, and there will be no safe online privacy, and what i think will happen is that the internet will out-do itself. People will start resorting to physical things such as real letters. I may just be babbling, after all it has only been a minute or two since the video ended and my thoughts are fresh and wild and s i may just be exaggerating, however i do not think the net should do this. It is bad enough as it is already, emails are not completely private and we don't even know how much power secret agencies and the government already have over us and how much knowledge they know. I could bet that somewhere every search i have ever done on this computer is listed, and we have to be careful about what we search or too much information about ourselves could be let out. Privacy is going to become a luxury if this prediction of the future comes to past, and that is why i do not want it to come, and that is why i am scared of this.
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