TED Talk #2 (Shai Agassi's Bold Plan For Electric Cars)

First of all, the reason that I chose this video is because I am interested in the actions of the auto industry becasue my father works for Chrysler Corporation, therefore, I am naturally interested in issues surrounding his job.  In listeneing to the speaker talk, he used a few dynamics in obtaining th attention of the audience.  First off, he surrounded his speach with  issues that are prominent in our society.  One of those issues is that of using oil in cars and how prices are affecting life.  This issue is especially important in American society as the majority of the population has cars and pays for gas.  The other issue that he brought up is that of the polution that petrolium is responsable for and how we should convert to using "clean" energy.  In the video, the speaker shows how electric cars could be a true reality if we take the steps to make it happen.  One quote I enjoyed from the video was when the speaker was talking about JFK and said, "One of the Reasons why he is remembered is because he said 'We're gonna send a man to the moon and we'll do it by the end of the decade'.  He didn't say ' We're gonna send a man about 20 percent to the moon and there wil be about a 20 percent chance we recover him'".  When hearing this quote, it made me think that although he was talking about the specific topic of the integration of electric cars, he also had a hidden message of needing to make something happen instead of having something else happen instead.  The last thing I have to say about the video is of the speaker's presentation style.  In the speech, the speaker was very organized with backup facts and statistics.  From what I saw, this was a very left-brain type of speech.  What is interesting to me is that I am a right-brainer (60%-40%) but this left-brained type of presentation was very easy for me to watch and listen to.  This shows me that there is always a way for people to take things away from topics whether it is given in a left-brained or right-brained way.