Education will Determine our Future | Nolan Bushnell | TEDxLoyolaMarymountU

As one of America’s visionary entrepreneurs, Nolan questions our core beliefs about challenges and predictions for the future. Hold on tight, because his ideas are pretty radical.

With his latest startup, BrainRush, Bushnell will deliver a TEDxTalk intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to “addict” students to learning.

Nolan Bushnell created an industry when he founded Atari in 1972 and gave the world Pong, the first blockbuster videogame. Today his design credo—that games should be “easy to learn and difficult to master”—is inspiring a new generation of developers. A prolific entrepreneur, he has started more than 20 companies, including Catalyst Technologies, the first Silicon Valley incubator, and Etak, the first in-car navigation system—not to mention Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater. In the process, he pioneered many of the workplace innovations that have long made Silicon Valley a magnet for creative talent. Bushnell was the first and only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, which he details in his 2013 book, Finding the Next Steve Jobs. A biopic, tentatively titled Atari and slated to star Leonardo DiCaprio as Bushnell, is currently in preproduction.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx