“Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.”- C.L.R. James (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/c_l_r_james_296295). Today, technology, education, and design have helped people in so many ways. It has not only helped with fitness goals, but also personal, career, and financial goals. Social change happens right in front of us every day from wearable devices to changing education to the design of products which shapes our ideas of the world around us.
There are many possible contributing factors in social changes such as technology, education, and design. For starters, one aspect of changing social structures and relationships comes from technology. For instance, Tan Le, a technology entrepreneur and business executive, created new piece of technology that will be able to help not only scientists, but society as a whole. She created a “remote control that uses brainwaves to control digital devices and …show more content…
(https://www.ted.com/speakers/tan_le). In the video, “Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves”, it shows that a man, who is unable to walk, using the headset to control his wheel chair with his mind. This type of technology is important because it helps those who are unable to do things on their own and it also helps scientists to learn more about the human brain and the way it functions. Another aspect of changing social structures and relationships comes from education. Education helps shapes new minds and allows us to create the things we have today. In the video, “One laptop per child”, Nicholas Negroponte says that one of the basic principles and solutions to our biggest problems is that “the solution to poverty, peace, and environment is education” (https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_on_one_laptop_per_child). Education is not only one of the powerful tools in social change, also individual change. Without the