The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler I have been thinking about how education should look like in our 21st century. Here is a list of the types of learning I think are important. Notice that […]
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The New Digerati IRL
February 25, 2008 
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“The new digerati have brokered a new online/offline balance as they find their “first life” in the real world unexpectedly attractive: face time trumps Facebook. They do not respond to emails on the weekend, as they are hiking, traveling, or engaging in some world changing social endeavor — from running an AIDS marathon to volunteering […]
Read moreA Call for a Multidisciplinary Connection Effort
October 28, 2007 2 Comments
Abstract concepts can also be understood as emergent concepts. These emergent concepts may the results of the interplays from our own personal lenses we use to interpret the world. Lenses like our own physical bodies and conceptual lenses such as belief systems help to shape the way we interpret things. This diagram may also help […]
Read morePostmodern concepts in contemporary life
October 27, 2007 0 Comments
“The theory of rejecting theories.” – Tony Cliff From Wikipedia: “postmodernism tends to refer to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, and interconnectedness or interreferentiality.” Here is my list of how postmodern concepts may be tied in with contemporary life: […]
Read moreAl Gore on Current.com
October 26, 2007 0 Comments
Quoting Al Gore from a blog post on the Identity unknown blog: “Current, the media company I co-founded six years ago with my partner Joel Hyatt, just last week launched a new web site that integrates television and the Web in an unprecedented way. It provides, as never before, a platform for citizens to make […]
Read moreFive Trends That Will Transform Society
October 16, 2007 0 Comments
“Author Richard Watson examines emerging patterns and developments and society, politics, science and technology, media and entertainment, and other industries in his book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years — and makes educated, and witty speculations as to where they might take us.” Source: Fast Company; Five Trends That Will Transform Society […]
Read moreThe Assault on Reason
June 3, 2007 0 Comments
Quoting Al Gore from a National Public Radio interview about his new book The Assault on Reason. “The point of this book is that our nation is so shockingly vulnerable to such crass manipulation. And it’s happening over and over again…” – Al Gore (…talking about The Assault on Reason, his latest book. Via NPR) […]
Read moreSocial innovation
May 29, 2007 0 Comments
“Realizing that innovation driven solely by technology often failed to meet customer needs, many organizations turned to a consumer (marketing) oriented approach where consumer research and observation is handled by “experts”. Green believes that this approach is starting to reaching end of life. [Josephine Green's (of Philips Design)] main point is that we need to […]
Read moreAnother think coming
May 27, 2007 0 Comments
Wayne Hall over at the IdeaFestival blog posted an interesting post: “According to the Financial Times some philosophers have set about mending the rift between experience and thought in order to make the discipline relevant again to a wider audience.”[1] The article details how one philosopher has merged philosophy and performance and goes to to […]
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