SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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everything and everyone in the world casts an 'information shadow', an aura of data
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credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone
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His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
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