We educate changemakers | Knowmads. El Knowmad: 17 atributos del trabajador del conocimiento y la innovación. Knowmads, Infocology of the future. Knowmads in Society 3.0. Remember nomads? In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location.
Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples… …but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads. A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work.
Whereas industrialization required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific in regard to task and place. Moreover, technologies allow for these new paradigm workers to work either at a specific place, virtually, or any blended combination. The coffee shop has become the workplace of choice for many knowmads. Who are these knowmads in Society 3.0? Invisible Learning. Knowmads as Critical Relevancies Hybrid Futures Knowmads pt 5. This is part 8 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization "..the concept of “transindividuation” is one that does not rest with the individuated “I” or with the interindividuated “We,” but is the process of co-individuation within a preindividuated milieu and in which both the “I” and the “We” are transformed through one another.
" Bernard Stiegler and Irit Rogoff, Transindividuation / Journal / e-flux Knowmads are the future of Individuation Increasingly the matter of our bodies, our bio-constructs, is being extended into virtuality. Though it is true that at present an appearance of a gap still exist between our bodies and the net, it is also concomitantly true that this gap is narrowing by the moment; in fact the time when our brains will integrate with machines is fast approaching, and though the uses for therapeutic purposes (at least at the beginning) are obvious and enlightening it is clear that soon thereafter the technology will spread to all of us. “Sapere aude” Digital Knowmads. Redesigning the future of education in Knowmad Society: Our next steps. In case if you missed my keynote at IPON, I’m sharing slides from my talk via SlideShare: IPON is moving away from serving as an ICT platform for education toward a platform for innovation in education. This requires a very human touch, and I aimed to reflect this aspect in my talk with an overview of Knowmad Society.
How we’ll get to the meaningful development of workers who can work anytime, anywhere, and with anybody in a knowmadic world requires significant realignment of our educational priorities. At IPON, I shared three approaches: Focus on soft skills development.In our book, Invisible Learning, Cristóbal Cobo and I explored the important roles of informal and soft skills learning — many of which contribute to elements of success in modern organizations or entrepreneurial activities. Above all, to make all of this happen, we need vision. Some people say we need a revolution. Education Futures | Exploring a New Paradigm in human capital development, driven by accelerating change. “Alpha Thinkers” are the Transhuman Wave of the Future. Posted: Mon, February 18, 2013 | By: Eric Schulke Alpha thinkers are creatives, innovators, pioneers.
They acutely and agilely navigate an abundance of diverse, fallacy aware thinking. The alpha thinker can’t bring themselves to live at the last outpost and not venture further. They cannot resist poking their finger through the realm of sub atomic particles. They can’t stay on this side of the atmosphere. Thanks to Hans Berger’s early 20th century creation of the Electroencephalography machine (EEG) for measuring electricity in the brain, we can see that the brain contains what we now call the Alpha, Beta, Theta and Delta waves.
Studies reported in Scientific America find that, “highly creative people tend to produce more brain waves in the alpha range (a frequency of eight to 12 hertz, or cycles per second) during creative tasks than do less creative people. An eccentric or a creative alone does not necessarily connote an alpha thinker. “not all eccentric individuals are creative. Rethinking human capital development in Knowmad Society. Note: This text is adapted from the original Spanish-language text that I wrote for the first Chapter 1 in Invisible Learning (a book co-written with Cristóbal Cobo). An updated and expanded version of this text will also appear in the next volume, Knowmad Society, due for release later in 2012, and is being shared early to ignite discussion for the upcoming On the Horizon special issue on “Borderless Society.”
(The call for papers is still open.) This working paper presents a framework for conceptualizing changes in society, driven by the forces of globalization, transformations of knowledge society, and accelerating change. The framework is centered on three social paradigms, which Moravec (2008c) labels “Society 1.0,” “Society 2.0,” and “Society 3.0” — expressed as Industrial Society, Knowledge Society, and Knowmad Society.
Society 1.0 reflects the norms and practices of pre-industrial to industrial civilization. The paradoxical co-existence of “Education 1.0” in “Society 3.0” [Note. Exponential Thinking At Singularity University. The Matrix is real… and everyone here at NASA for the GSP has taken the red pill. If you recall in the movie, Neo is startled, puzzled, and quite frankly scared when Morpheus first introduces him to the reality of reality. But here at Singularity University, the participants have hit the ground running, as if they’ve known this to be their fate all along. During our introduction to the program, CEO Rob Nail (acting as Morpheus) explained the importance of having an open mind throughout the experience and embracing the unknown.
He showed us a blurry black and white image (seen below). Those vetted in cognitive neuroscience may have seen this optical illusion before, but initially most people in the crowd were not able to make sense of the noise on screen. The trick is to momentarily highlight the picture (a dog), which essentially implants the image into your mind. Can you see the dog? Throughout the first week we covered the basics of the 10 tracks that make up our curriculum. Nine key characteristics of knowmads in Society 3.0. A knowmad is what I have previously termed a nomadic knowledge and innovation worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Moreover, knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gives them a competitive advantage. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. Whereas the industrialization of Society 1.0 required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific in regard to task and place.
Moreover, technologies allow for these new paradigm workers to work either at a specific place, virtually, or any blended combination. Knowmads can instantly reconfigure and recontextualize their work environments, and greater mobility is creating new opportunities. Knowmads… Are not restricted to a specific age. Knowmad Society. Knowmads of Texture and sensuality in hyperconnectivity. “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” Brian Massumi - Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus The social aspect of the hyperconnected web carries an update to the nature of propinquity. Propinquity is a conceptual brick we need re-acquire and redefine in the era of hyperconnectivity.
By allowing the texture of hyperconnected virtuality to gain precedence we will open new realms of sensual experience previously unexplored, these realms offer the potential to explore new forms of freedom not previously accessible or existent. Polytopians are Knowmads pushing the edge of texture (of flows of interest) by embodying the new meaning of propinquity. 1. When we say that distance defines value- we imply a number of characteristics that seem obvious on surface: The value of my physical neighbor is higher to me than the value of a person living in a different county, country, continent and so on.
Not so fast 2. 3. Hybrid futures Knowmads and the Notion state. Or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization (part 4) “Today, after over fifteen years of planning, construction, delays and drama, the Large Hadron Collider began doing what it was built to do: colliding particles. Just before 13:00 Geneva time, physicists guided two beams of protons moving at 3.5 TeV into collision points around the machine's 27 km ring. Moments later, cheers erupted from the control rooms of the machine's four main experiments, as shrapnel from the collisions flooded into the detectors.” Nature" Going live: “How is the LHC performing?”
As I am writing the last lines of this post I am simultaneously listening to the amazing live webcast of the most formidable experiment in human history, the collision of 7TV beams at Cern LHC, a project which outcome may very well revolutionize our understanding of the basic laws of physics. It is in fact a: A collective overcoming of tribal inhibition mechanisms Deleuze and Guattari (What is Philosophy?) 1. 2. 1. 2. 4. (Brendan I. 5. Knowmads as Aesthetic Curators of information Hybrid Futures Knowmads pt 4. This is part 7 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.Josef Albers We are multidimensional minds, multisensory systems presently embodied in simple materiality. But that is changing. Our presence as embodied cognition increases in scope and extent, range and span, delineating a new contour to our beingness in time.
This increase in presence is presently mediated via the net and its mobile derivatives, augmented, auric and virtual realities, which deconstruct our age-old location based awareness and reconstruct it into an ambient awareness pervading all facets of our lives. The new ambient awareness we are evolving into will in time define a new mindset, a fresh collection of sensations and an original kind of perception. This fact changes us; slowly, almost imperceptibly, but change it does. “Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified.” Friedrich Nietzsche. Knowmads as metabolic reactors of information Hybrid Future and Knowmads pt 3. Part 6 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization The peculiar ‘liquidity’ of our times may be less the consequence of structural change than intellectual exhaustion, the failure of the great ideologies of the twentieth century to bring about change on a scale that really would transform what it means to be human.
Bauman rightly warns against attempts to seek refuge in the identities of the past, but in his lament at the passing of lasting values, he perhaps underestimates the possibilities for self-assured human beings unencumbered by the past, and brave enough to face the future. . — The trouble with being human these days Identity Zygmunt Bauman (by Dolan Cummings) Intro The proliferation of visions of our futures in the last decades has created a kind of black hole situation, a situation which, to say the least, and that is why I use the black hole metaphor, has not allowed the light of virtuality to come forth and shine. Old others, new others Old myths, new myths. From Citizen Kane to Knowmadism.
Citizen Kane -> aesthetics -> story -> reality -> perception -> senses -> information -> infocologies -> privacy -> Facebook -> data mining -> personal narratives -> human freedoms -> government control -> sur-, sous-veillance -> commodification of personal data -> data-mining personal and collective infocologies -> knowmadism (75:18 min, 192 kbps, mono mp3 – 51.7mb, DL it HERE) “that’s some pretty trippy shit, Mr. Ishan” – a student This is a lecture I gave on May 25th to a class of 14 year old high school freshman. I see outdated paradigms worm their way through the plasticity of the minds, solidifying the worldview of these students and I know that its not too late. But this multi-linear existence is being forced to inhabit an old paradigm of knowledge gathering, learning, and perception of the world around us that is propogated by the current system of education.
We have to have the conversation when the youth is young. Spaceweaver: Nomads Knowmads Noumads. The idea for this post came up while reflecting on Wildcat’s latest posts on the Knowmad and from an excellent piece I came by lately in G. Deleuze’s book – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. To be more precise, it was inspired by a character from a science fiction book I am reading called Galileo’s Dream.
A decrepit time traveler marooned in Galileo’s time who goes by the name Cartophilus – the lover of maps, brought everything together. Cartophilus never liked maps, but he is certainly the exception rather than the rule because we all love maps, to draw maps and to play with maps. Making maps is an essential aspect of how we extend into spaces. Nomads have very special relations with space. In this light, Wildcat’s knowmad is an experiment in mapping, groping for those complex yet embryonic relations between consciousness and information space that will eventually emerge as a dynamic expression of freedom.
Mind space is a pure relation space.