TED Community » Marconi Pereira

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Internet, innovation, art, computers and children, Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Spirituality

An idea worth spreading

Creativity in education / connecting the dots (ideas and experiences) / get the spiritual fullest potential / respect, responsibility, love

Talk to me about

Education, Children, Technology, Future of communications, mobile,

People don't know that I'm good at

cooking, yoga, running, observing peoples eyes

My TED Story

I've found TED in 2007 through Youtube. It was a shock to discover something so cool, so creative, so different in all this time that I use the Internet (and I use Internet since 1994). TEDTalks are extraordinary ways to improve our life quality, give profound insights and oportunities to change something, be it our internal or external world.

Comments

• TEDCred score: +2357.00 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A comment on Conversation: Eduardo Paes: Four commandments of future city: 1. Be green 2. Fix mobility 3. Honor favelas 4. Embrace tech

  Mar 1 2012: Invest in Education I may add.

• A comment on Conversation: Do Mathematics really help us to think and open our minds?

  Nov 16 2011: I don't know how to answer this question, but I'd like to point out a great talk about it, by the way it was in Argentina!
  Take a look: http://www.tedxriodelaplata.org/videos/placer-tener-un-problema-no-resuelto-en-cabeza

• A reply on Conversation: How do we capture the collective wisdom and engage the global TEDx communities?

  Feb 11 2011: I used to translate TEDxTalks that relate to my own TEDx event. I've translated to Brazilian portuguese 2 TEDxTalks: Steve Shapiro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Fu2iMgHn0) and Chase Pickering (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSHwMJXffs).
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  A comment on Conversation: What's your favorite single sentence from a TEDTalk?

  Feb 11 2011: "Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you … failure has to be an option in art and exploration because it’s a leap of faith. In whatever you’re doing, failure is an option, but fear is not."
  
  James Cameron.
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  A comment on Conversation: How do we capture the collective wisdom and engage the global TEDx communities?

  Feb 11 2011: I think we are missing a special platform to share all those achievements that captures some information about tools and initiatives that solve little and big problems.
  
  I'd love to have such and easy app that we, as TEDx organizers, could fill with information, get keywords and associate them as our own brain do it. Actually there's no way to do this as perfect as our brain do, but we have to start from scratch, old way, excel sheet...
  
  Maybe a crowdsource idea association or something like that. If we can capture such ideas association, we could expand it to a semantic robot that could do this for us.
  
  It's challenging to think about it and how to solve.
  Sometime ago I thought about TEDxTalks Youtube channel video description. If we can put all those descriptions in a database, we will have data to start.
  
  I've captured some time ago 2,000 descriptions from TEDxTalks, but I lost my hard drive and I didn't have backup! (shame on me). This took me hours and hours of work. If each TEDxOrganizer could do from your own event, this could facilitate the job. Can you propose this task to licensees google group? They could come up with ideas to enhance such data analysis.
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  A comment on Conversation: What's the best hidden gem in the TED archive?

  Feb 11 2011: I think Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html) is a great and hidden gem in the TED archive. The details about flow remember Spinoza, a great philosopher of old times...