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Really worth a watch - Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
A fascinating talk of James Fallon, a neurologist with an unusual story. His talk brings quite a lot of interesting questions to think about, and I would really advise it to all, plus, it might fit well as a basis for some high-school class.
The Era of collaboration
Our society is undergoing constant changes, no breaking news to anyone, however, the nature of changes might require some kind of examination.
When we come to try to realize some changes in education, it important to have a look at the big picture, because approach to education is really our approach to life.
So far human society has developed along with the evolution of our desires, or more precisely with the growth of individual desire.
Each one claiming for each its own desires to be satisfied.
But now, I think it can be said that we are at a turning point, where individual satisfaction has grown to a point where it undermines the stability of our social structure.
Somehow, we need to learn how to take in consideration others in our own personal satisfaction, so that the society which we need to realize these very same desires, will survive this collective claim for individual satisfaction.
Instinctively, we know we need to take others in consideration, of course, however this is not enough anymore, because the level of interconnection and interdependency has grown in our world to a point where our instincts are somewhat falling short to make the right evaluation.
We need to educate ourselves how to live in this global world.
It is as if our social senses are getting confused by these fast changes our society is going through and we have to learn a whole new set of social skills to make us more collaborationist, if one may say.
Collaboration is not just a buzz word - it is really the key to this new sustainable society, when one need to find the right way to satisfy its own personal desires, while keeping alive the social connection between us.
Learning how to collaborate is a required step to develop our society on the short and long term.
Or at least it is a absolute requirement for long term, it turns out to have immediate pay out, as the business world is discovering. (See last summer HBR dedicated to collaboration)
Meanwhile some kind of schema that could illustrate the idea:
Web 3.0 - The Future Is Yesterday (via cbcweb3point0)
an other quite funny video.
beside ironny, it make a point on that, the net, today, once nakered from all the clinking technology is still very poor in terms of interaction and creativity it is offering.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Thomas Edison
Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
social media evolution
Change management applied to society
Our society - the one in which we live - is in perpetual change, let’s call it evolution. It would be interesting to find a model to create a change, and not just to be the witness of it. Has human evolution a law? Does it has a purpose?
Say we find it follows a certain pattern, then we could not only get change as a way of governing ourself and lead society to its next step.
Increase relevancy of communication
Just mail Matt Cutts and the guys at unofficial google team :
Hi,
I have just watched the
http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2009/10/26/raindrop-makes-communication-easier-to-manage/
where the guy in the video give some clever insight about relevancy of mail as opposed to bulk.
Bulk / Spam is irrelvant mail.
Today, we have a very binary definition of Spam. Either is it spam, or it is not.
But it is not this way.
Beside the die hard spam, there is a huge amount of irrelevant email I get on a daily basis,
which is nice but not needed - not now, not in this context.
For some reason, gmail didnt invest into relancy of messages based on contacts.
I have work contact, I have close team contacts, I have friends, familly, ennemies etc.
My contacts are just reflection my life, the society I am in contact with and I am not willing to get communication with the whole society at once and without distinction who talk to me.
Buzz is the same : If I buzz about the last concert in town, why should people that I know and follow me - BUT dont live in the same town - should care about it? If I buzz about science, why people that dont like science should give a shit about it? I dont know only people with the same interests as me.
Same reason, why I dont follow back buzzers…
What about labeling users? or I dont know… something that would allow to get life more practical.
I also droped a notice about this on matt’s blog.
I have no idea how to get this sorted, but I think it is today one one the main issues in mail.
People should not need to become black belt @ Inbox Zero in order to survice communication - instead google should provide a cool way to deal with irrelevant bulk things from people.
