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How HiveMind's Will Wright plans to crowdsource your happiness (interview) | VentureBeat - 0 views

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Will Wright's games from SimCity to The Sims have sold more than 100 million units. That's why people are paying attention to his new startup and game idea, HiveMind. The Berkeley, Calif.-based company is focused on "personal gaming," or a kind of title that can customize itself for the individual player, taking into account aspects of a player's real-life situation as elements of the game.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Will Wright's games from SimCity to The Sims have sold more than 100 million units. That's why people are paying attention to his new startup and game idea, HiveMind. The Berkeley, Calif.-based company is focused on "personal gaming," or a kind of title that can customize itself for the individual player, taking into account aspects of a player's real-life situation as elements of the game.</div>

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[STUDY] How Hyperconnectivity Affects Young People - 0 views

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A new study released today by Pew sheds light on the lurking, albeit very real notion that we all not-so-secretly fear: there are actual consequences to the hyperconnected lifestyle that many 21st century millennial Americans live! But calm down, it's not all frowny-face emoticons and Sherry Turkle-esque Alone Together narratives.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A new study released today by Pew sheds light on the lurking, albeit very real notion that we all not-so-secretly fear: there are actual consequences to the hyperconnected lifestyle that many 21st century millennial Americans live! But calm down, it's not all frowny-face emoticons and Sherry Turkle-esque Alone Together narratives.</div>

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Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 14 views

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The 20th century taught us that completing one task before starting another one was the route to success. Everything about 20th-century education, like the 20th-century workplace, has been designed to reinforce our attention to regular, systematic tasks that we take to completion. Attention to task is at the heart of industrial labor
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  While I agree that we have honoured discipline and solitary focus as described here, I disagree with the inference that our brains can do differently. Much research, including Daniel Kahneman's work on Thinking, Fast and Slow, describes the impact of rapid attention switching on performance et al. What I DO agree with, however, is the concept of 'many brains' - or 'distributed minds' - working on multiple tasks simultaneously - as in 'crowdsourcing'. I just think we need not to mix the two things up. Yes, I do believe in the plasticity of the brain and learning new habits and ways of being in the world - rewiring if you like. Hebb said it - "Neurons that fire together - wire together." But, I also firmly believe that there an individual has attentional limits and effort required (wasted) in moving from one complex task to another.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">While I agree that we have honoured discipline and solitary focus as described here, I disagree with the inference that our brains can do differently. Much research, including Daniel Kahneman's work on Thinking, Fast and Slow, describes the impact of rapid attention switching on performance et al. What I DO agree with, however, is the concept of 'many brains' - or 'distributed minds' - working on multiple tasks simultaneously - as in 'crowdsourcing'. I just think we need not to mix the two things up. Yes, I do believe in the plasticity of the brain and learning new habits and ways of being in the world - rewiring if you like. Hebb said it - "Neurons that fire together - wire together." But, I also firmly believe that there an individual has attentional limits and effort required (wasted) in moving from one complex task to another.</div>
  
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