Touchscreen: Marshall 'Soulful' Jones at TEDxMontreal

Marshall Jones makes us rethink our digital culture through an engaging slam poetry performance.

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[daisy..]

Watching this for school while doing remote learning 👀

[knjjah]

This has always been one of my favorite slam poems.

[clockworkartist]

I love poets who use their body as a part of their poem

[LpsKorama]

English brought me you for coming to my ted talk

[ratjamon]

Can anybody find any literary devices? Cuz i have homework on this and need one more

[ttolalu]

This is different than the original, I noticed immediately.

[indybackx]

Pov : your English teacher sent you this link for school

[nicolesegovia]

i cant here mother nature over all this tweeting is just great

[aamirsohail]

This is very different to the original.

[eggyt]

I FOUND IT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! And by years I totally do not mean I first saw it yesterday in assembly at school hahahahaha

[multishock]

I just realized that wall-e is the perfect visualization of this poem

[coulterminer]

POV: your missing this assignment and this the last assignment until your free for the weekend and you see *ROBO MAN*

[nothanniballecktor]

I liked the original version better. The changes you made to the performance weren't enhancing and robbed it of its emotion.

[sheracar]

Awesomeness!!! No other words but a huge smile on my face (after watching this about 10 times in an hour)

[CynthiaPulver]

The saddest thing is to not know other than what you experience. The Millennial generation isn't under the social constraints as my generation was. When you connected with friends it was through verbal communication with eye contact and body language that's what being human is about.Through Facebook or MSG, I have contact with my daughter almost daily but I haven't spoken to her in almost a year. I called last week expecting her voicemail but she answered. Surprised,  I called out her pet name. She started crying and I knew at the sound of my voice a flood of emotion overcame her. The power of my voice stirred emotions she wasn't aware she harbored.

[ivory]

omg i can't stop replaying this video

[otakujayy]

I love this poem, it's my favorite one

[awesomedarkstalker]

Poem: Touchscreen
Ad: Car, built with an 12 inch touchscreen

[fk]

Love it!! Wonderful performance with a beautiful message. Thank you!

[sitomer]

amazing, perfect combination of creativity ad intelligence