March 2014

Practical, socially relevant technology

Peo­ple use the word tech­nol­o­gy for “every­thing that does­n’t work yet.” Danny Hillis, a com­put­er sci­en­tist and entre­pre­neur, point­ed out that the best tech­nol­o­gy is unseen: once tech­nolo­gies works, they sim­ply become com­put­ers, tele­phones. cars, etc. Peo­ple accept tech­nolo­gies, when they regard them as providers of reli­able rou­tine solu­tions of prob­lems, most of them belong­ing to one if the the “3Ds” cat­e­gories: dull, dan­ger­ous and dirty. Take robots: as long as we talk

A Reply: You can learn something from somebody and everything from all.

This is a guest post by Janine Pfahl, a com­mu­ni­ca­tions and learn­ing expert. Janine replies to my ear­li­er post., which you might read first. While paus­ing for a moment in the spring sun­shine to read Michael’s text „You can learn some­thing from every­body and every­thing from all“, our dog posi­tions his snout on my key­board and starts to com­mu­ni­cate in his own way. It’s absolute­ly clear what he wants to tell me. Not only

You can learn something from anybody

I hear gos­sip about col­leagues every­day — in the sub­way, dur­ing lunch, etc. . I don’t real­ly lis­ten to peo­ple chitchat­ting but inter­est­ing­ly those peo­ple around me seem to always be the ones being in the right to com­plain about oth­ers. Until today I have never over­heard a con­ver­sa­tion in which some­body told her peer that she her­self was unfair, illoy­al or focus­ing on her indi­vid­ual suc­cess instead of the team’s. Isn’t that funny? It

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Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

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The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

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