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Media Lab: The Cognitive Limit of Organizations

Media Lab: The 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. In the early days, life was simple. 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. In a world in which implementing the next generation of ideas will increasingly require pulling resources from different organizations, barriers to collaboration will be a crucial constraint limiting the development of firms. The Media Lab and its members need to adapt to this world by focusing on creating a platform that can help all of us navigate this new landscape.

Internet n’est pas contrôlable Il y a comme ça des figures d’Internet. Des dinosaures à qui l’on doit beaucoup sans toujours le savoir. Des Jean-Michel Billaut, des hackers de légende qui ont dépassé depuis longtemps l’envie d’être les vedettes éphémères de la presse. Dans cette liste, il y a Laurent Chemla. Lors du lancement de Reflets, il nous a paru évident de lui poser des questions, comme cela avait été le cas en 2005. Laurent est comme Reflets, il n’est pas pressé et préfère prendre le temps de la réflexion. - En 2005, je t’avais déjà posé toute une série de questions sur l’évolution d’Internet. Si j’ai mis longtemps (bon, plus d’un an, d’accord) avant de répondre à tes questions, c’est surtout la faute à celle-ci : « Il va où le Net ? Prédire l’avenir d’un réseau en évolution constante, c’est d’une difficulté sans nom. En 2005, le DPI n’était guère envisageable parce que le matériel ne permettait pas son existence. Concernant la tentation de contrôle des Etats, il faudrait remonter encore plus loin.

Coursera- Solving Open University courses With Big Data peer reviews College is stuck in the past, and tech is always trying to tow it out of the mud. The trick is finding a solution that provides more access to higher education, improves the learning experience, and enables future improvement, instead of miring college in some company's proprietary system. Coursera has such an offering, and it announces today that some of the world's top universities will participate in its experiment. Princeton; Stanford; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania will all offer courses on the platform for free to anyone in the world with Internet access. To help bring Coursera up to speed, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates have backed it with $16 million in venture funding. "We see a future where world-renowned universities serve millions instead of thousands," says Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller. And it's not just learning by rote. More Than an Afterthought College at Scale

What I Learned Watching 150 Hours of TED Talks - Carmine Gallo by Carmine Gallo | 11:00 AM April 11, 2014 What makes for a great presentation — the kind that compels people’s attention and calls them to action? TED talks have certainly set a benchmark in recent years: HBR even asked Chris Anderson, the group’s founder, to offer lessons drawn from the three decades he’s run TED’s signature events in an article published last summer. But experience and intuition are one thing; data and analysis are another. Use emotion. I divided the content of his talk into Aristotle’s three areas of persuasion. Stories that trigger emotion are the ones that best inform, illuminate, inspire, and move people to action. Be novel. In his 2009 TED presentation on the impact of malaria in African countries, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates shocked his audience when he opened a jar of mosquitoes in the middle of his talk. As neuroscientist Dr. Emphasize the visual.

MindTimeMaps.com - Mapping the world of thinking. Internet ou le stratagème des chaînes » irrealpOlitik.fr Rating: 8.3/ (6 votes cast) « Si la supériorité numérique de l’adversaire rend le combat inégal, il faut l’amener à se ligoter lui-même pour le réduire à l’impuissance. » « Nul n’est plus désespérément esclave que celui faussement convaincu d’être libre. » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Internet fut introduit en France vers le milieu des années 1990. Cela eut surtout le mérite, pour le cas qui nous intéresse, d’apprendre à ces gens à maîtriser suffisamment un ordinateur pour rejoindre ensuite les rangs de la grande armée des pionniers du « surf sur Internet », qui sauront plus tard initier leur entourage, femmes, enfants, parents et amis aux rudiments de la navigation. Les ordinateurs étaient déjà là depuis les années 1980, le plus souvent esseulés, tristes et malheureux. Quelques données statistiques En 2000, les statistiques donnaient environ 20 millions d’internautes en France ; en 2011, on atteignait quasiment les 40 millions. 20% de « divertissement, musique, spectacle » 3% de cinéma

Learning through questioning: Gurteen summary of links Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 142 - April 2012 Contents 1 Introduction to the April 2012 Knowledge Letter 2 You can forget facts but cannot forget understanding 3 Don't praise the child! Introduction to the April 2012 Knowledge Letter (top | next | prev) I have been tidying up, structuring and building my YouTube channel over the last few months. In doing this, I have built several new playlists that I am continuously adding to. In particular, I have created playlists for some of the people who inspire me the most. And, one that I plan to spend a lot more time on Trends in Education and Learning Go take a look I am sure you will find something you will enjoy. You can forget facts but cannot forget understanding (top | next | prev) This short video clip Confessions of a Converted Lecturer from a talk by Professor Erik Mazur who teaches Physics at Harvard is quite mind blowing. You will find more talks from Erik Mazur in this YouTube playlist. Don't praise the child! I love it. David GURTEEN

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... Berners-Lee warns ISPs on net neutrality | Technology The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned internet service providers (ISPs) that plans for a "two-speed" internet go against the principles that have let the net grow so rapidly in the past two decades. "Best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," Berners-Lee told a round table in Westminster on Wednesday morning, convened by the communications minister Ed Vaizey. Content companies, represented by Facebook, Skype, the BBC and Yahoo, squared up to ISPs, with input from consumer representatives including the Open Rights Group, the Consumers' Association and the communications regulator Ofcom. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group, who was representing consumer interests at the meeting, said afterwards that he was concerned about the direction the debate was going: "The potential for something going terribly wrong is absolutely there.

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