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Bruce Schneier enlightens viewers on the fact that true security is not all what we make it out to be in his TED Talk that was filmed in October of 2010. His main argument is that security is split into three different categories. They are reality, feeling, and model. Reality is, as hinted in the name, based on reality. An example of this is the security risks of terrorist attacks. Bruce words this as, “…terrorism almost never happens, it's really hard to judge efficacy of counter-terrorist measures. There aren't enough examples of failures” (“Schneier"). This is why many people aren’t really concerned with the war on terror and thus protest the United States’ efforts in the Middle East. Above is a video from the 2007 Iraq war protests in Washington DC. An idea that appears as if the protesters are circling around is that they are reprioritizing their beliefs on security. Another one of Bruce Schneier’s beliefs about security is that every choice has some kind of trade-off. Bruce uses the example of a rabbit to example this idea. It states, “Imagine a rabbit in a field, eating grass, and the rabbit's going to see a fox. That rabbit will make a security trade-off: ‘Should I stay, or should I flee?’ And if you think about it, the rabbits that are good at making that trade-off will tend to live and reproduce, and the rabbits that are bad at it will get eaten or starve" ("Schneier"). In my own education of biology, I have learned this idea coined as “survival of the fittest”. It was created by biologist Herbert Spencer after read George Darwin’s book The Origin of Species. This whole process is and has been used continuously by nature, but relatively recently noticed and thought about by man. Why is this? I feel that this is because since the formation of the information age, the learning and knowledge-holding abilities of humans have been increasing at an extremely fast paced, exponential skyrocket. The people that were not able to learn as fast and work as hard were eradicated so that a more capable form of people lived on. It feels to me that the principal on which Biology is founded is the underlying message of the “TED Talk” that I will have for my English class Final. That message is that competition drives everything because there are only limit resources and limited time in one’s life. I think that Bruce Schneier’s concept of security should be applied to everything and especially education. By this I mean that grades are not so influential to the security of getting a job in the future. Instead, I think that it should be the student’s responsibility to learn and if they don’t then it will weed out competition in the job market when that student cannot get a job.
Bruce Schneier’s way of presenting was reinforced heavily by the use of story. He seemed to find one or two ways that every point that he brought up could be backed up specifically by a real life story. However, another thing that Bruce did during his presentation was overuse of his hands. It appeared that at the beginning of his TED Talk that his hands were constantly speeding from one side of his body to the other. In other words, it distracted from his performance. That will be helpful to my when I give my TED Talk because I constantly use my hand when I speak publically.
Works Cited
Schneier, Bruce. "Bruce Schneier: The Security Mirage | Video on TED.com." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. Apr. 2011. Web. 06 May 2011. <http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_schneier.html>.
"YouTube - IRAQ WAR PROTEST - JAN. 27, 2007." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 27 Jan. 2007. Web. 06 May 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEYELcLoU0s>.
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