The Entire History of You and my Ignite Speech

One of my favorite works that we have looked at in this course has been Armstrong and Welsh's "The Entire History of You," part of the Black Mirror series.  As I am a big fan of Black Mirror and have watched all three seasons, I was pleasantly surprised when we watched that episode in lecture, and was even happy to include the work in my Semiotic Analysis for Frida Kahlo's works.

Black Mirror: "The Entire History of You"

The idea of the this episode is very interesting.  It explores an alternate reality in which everyone has access to their own grain, and can access any of their memories to rewatch them whenever they want.  Obviously, while this idea has a lot of positives, it also has a lot of negative disadvantages to it.  The episode in particular shows the main character Liam, using the grain to discover the sad truth that his wife Ffion has been cheating on him.  Personally, I think it would be very beneficial to have a grain - though I do think that restrictions would have to be applied.  The closest we have to a grain right now would be... a GoPro?  However wearing a GoPro basically tells the entire world that you're recording them - and people don't like that.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAu2T9xLj8

In the case of my Ignite speech, which heavily focuses on the Rubik's Cube as an example of what hard work can accomplish, having a grain or equivalent would have been very helpful for providing visuals.  As the Rubik's Cube is literally a visual representation of what my years of practicing have done, it would helped to have more videos of me solving it.  Because I don't have a grain, however, the best I could do was salvage old photos and videos from my phone and look online for other examples.

I believe that for everyone, making an Ignite speech would be much easier with a grain.  As many of our speeches draw from our past experiences, the ability to show others what we have gone through - much like in "The Entire History of You," can greatly improve the point that we try to convey we our speeches.  Visuals are powerful, and the phrase "Seeing is believing" is a quote that I kept in mine when making my speech.