Category: Media
Life-long learning and the mind palace
I’ve been meaning to write this down for ages but this feels like the right time. Who is going to build the mind palace platform for life-long learning? It’s increasingly recognised that we will all have to become adept at learning (and unlearning) new things if we are to cope … Continue Reading Life-long learning and the mind palace
Shakespeare Reloaded
via Shakespeare Reloaded
Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence
A design for life. IDEO ‘Leading for creativity’ resources
Apple on design Tim Brown TEDx 2009 ‘Design is getting big again’ ‘Start with humans’ ‘Build to think… and Prototype’ Participation as the goal, not consumption Design participatory systems – theme for design and the economy 10.46 example of Kaiser Permanente where nurses changes their shift changeover practices, so instead of … Continue Reading A design for life. IDEO ‘Leading for creativity’ resources
New Sensations. Innovation eras from modern history
What was the greatest era for innovation? A brief guided tour courtesy of the Bill Gates Newsletter and the New York Times
Think! TEDx 2016
I’m often left wondering what TEDx is all about, so look forward to thinking about it from someone more informed’s point of view. Kylie Dunn’s Start Thinking! An Initial Review of TEDxSydney and also Work Club’s TEDx Sydney 2016 Recap
Roll over Beethoven. Sydney Writers Festival 2016
Making your mind up. How (Supposedly) Rational People Make Decisions
Again, courtesy of Farnham Street: How (Supposedly) Rational People Make Decisions
Too busy. Creating a Latticework of Mental Models
Thank you Farnham Street for this evolving list of mental models: Creating a Latticework of Mental Models: An Introduction
Down under. Much needed ideas
The Conversation is compiling 20 papers before the next election, with a focus on Ideas for Australia Improving democracy for workers is not easy but it must be done What to do about employee engagement – aspirations and reality. The threat of the 0.1% and plutocracy; the decline in union … Continue Reading Down under. Much needed ideas
I can see for miles. Koolhaas houselife
Eve of destruction. Underestimating the risk of human extinction
Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we humans will destroy ourselves. via … Continue Reading Eve of destruction. Underestimating the risk of human extinction
Honkin’ down the highway. In a minor key
Yoshimi battles the pink robots. Automation is so yesterday
Automation is so yesterday Thomas H. Davenport In 2011, Foxconn Technology Group (iPhone and iPad and assemblers) said they’d deploy a million robots within three years. CEO Terry Gou believed the robots would replace a million workers. In 2015, Foxconn has about 50,000 robots installed, and still employs a million … Continue Reading Yoshimi battles the pink robots. Automation is so yesterday
Working man blues. Jobs and automation
‘Workers always lose. Economics always wins.’ University of Technology Sydney Vice Chancellor Attila Brungs referenced a video at a conference I attended last year. Humans need not apply doesn’t need much of an introduction but it does flesh out more of the ideas, opportunities and threats inherent in automation, especially … Continue Reading Working man blues. Jobs and automation
This is the 21st century. Jobs and automation
Two recent videos compel me to comment on emerging angst (not just mine) over the future of work. The first is a short film, The last job on Earth, and the second, a call to action by Annalie Killian, founder of the Amplify Festival, on the need to rediscover the … Continue Reading This is the 21st century. Jobs and automation
