TED Talk Ideas

The concept of a TED talk is essentially to communicate ideas that can be highly technical to an audience that is not necessarily familiar with the lexicon of the field in question. As a result I think that the TED talk format that is usually roughly followed will work well for a simulation as it is basically a programming project, and is therefore very technical. Direct screenshots or videos from the simulation would obviously be useful in contributing to the audience's understanding, but I would ideally like to also generate some kind of visual data of my progress. For instance, a very rapid video of all the coding I have done could demonstrate how the program has changed over time and how I have had to rewrite past pieces of code in order to better facilitate new ideas or different implementations of old ideas. Realia would be a challenge for a project that is entirely digital, although I do like the idea of giving the audience something that they can actually touch to help break up a presentation and stop it from becoming monotonous. I would like my presentation to have some similar aspects to that of Ken Robinson, although in practice I think that visuals would be an easy way to show the audience what I have actually made, so I don't think I'm going to be going the zero technology route. Something that I do think I can implement is strong communication of ideas without reading off of a PowerPoint, and I will try to use technology sparsely rather than whenever possible.