I just love TED Talks. Wonderful, humorous, inspiring speakers. Many short and punchy. Some like:
made me smile and even clap my hands at the end. Others like:
had me laughing and nodding my head in agreement.
The topics are fascinating. And the speakers exceptional. But when it comes to geospatial – and I truly do not mean to be disrespectful to those many speakers who have presented on geospatial topics – I am left a little cold.
[h=1]My problem with Geospatial TED Talks so far ..[/h]I’ll admit I get amused, and excited quite easily. Tell me a joke, any joke and I’ll roll around laughing. Tell me something that is interesting and you’ll have my undivided attention.
Geography holds the answers to so many questions. That’s*why I love it so much.*And geography as a science is truly fascinating. We study and focus on both humans and land-forms. Spatial or*relating to space, being at geographies core: location or the ‘where’. So why am I a little down on TED Talks?
Because*I’ve seen nothing so far which has excited and inspired me!
I’ve seen talks on GIS, digital maps, mapping this and that, big data. All good in their own right. But I want more. I want somebody to talk about the geospatial revolution/evolution that’s underway. Not somebody from one of the big vendors. Somebody who sees our incredibly exciting, newly emerging geospatial world through a different lens.
I was looking over the weekend at the*most popular Tedx talks of 2016. And guess what is missing… Any talk which shines a light on the new possibilities the rapid advances in geospatial bring to our world.*Let’s change that in 2017.
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