Ben Cameron draws his audience in with his humor and knowledge of music artists, authors, and movies. His big picture throughout the talk is that the performing arts such as plays, dance, and music are being over run by technology. Schools are facing a similar problem of business and technology classes taking over the spots of art and music programs all together.
Students, instead of putting their time into music or art, spend more time online or playing video games. On average students entering collage have spent 20,000 hours online and 10,000 hours playing video games. A passage from a book " Good to Great" by Thomas Gladwell stated that its takes about 10,000 or more hours to become a master or professional at something. If this were true, students would be professional video gamers and TV watchers by they time they were 18.
The number of members and audiences are diminishing but the number of artists and musicians are exploding. People want on the other side of the "curtain" or experience. Artistic institutions will continue to have great importance throughout the booming of technology. According to Daniel Pink these right brain acts should be held to higher standards and of greater importance. He says, "The MFA is the new MBA..." (Pink). Pink agrees with Ben Cameron's idea that right brain artistic tasks are still valuable and important as left brain activities.
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