CS4 future talk: Dr Rachel Armstrong | cs4southampton. On Wednesday 30th January, Dr Rachel Armstrong from the the Univ ersity of Greenwich will give the CS4 talk “A Hitchiker’s Guide to Complexity” Building 53 Room 4025, Highfield Campus, 4-5pm. Refreshments served after the talk. Abstract: “This talk offers a multi-disciplinary view of complexity from the perspective of an informed amateur – an ideas hitchhiker – curating concepts relevant to its philosophical, technological and cultural importance.
Like this: Like Loading... MindTimeMaps.com - Mapping the world of thinking. MIT Media Lab &Cognitive Limit of Organizations. This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo. He used this slide to explain a concept that I think is key to the way we think about how the Media Lab is evolving. The vertical axis of this slide represents the total stock of information in the world. The horizontal axis represents time. In the early days, life was simple. We did important things like make spears and arrowheads. The amount of knowledge needed to make these items, however, was small enough that a single person could master their production.
There was no need for a large division of labor and new knowledge was extremely precious. At some point, however, the amount of knowledge required to make things began to exceed the cognitive limit of a single human being. When the Media Lab was founded 25 years ago, many products were still single-company products and most, if not all, of the intellectual property was contained in a single company. This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo. In the early days, life was simple. Ideas I like - settings.