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Neil Movold

Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age - 0 views

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Storytelling

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  • Neil Movold on 26 Oct 11
     
    We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We're extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives."
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Why we forget - 0 views

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Memory The Mind Neuroscience

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  • Neil Movold on 02 Jul 12
     
    Our memories are wrong at least as often as they are right. At best, they are incomplete, though we might swear other wise. This affects countless aspects of our lives, and in many cases our memories - true or false - affect others' lives.
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Only human beings can tell you where meaning is.. George Dyson - Information Is Cheap, ... - 0 views

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Critical Thinking innovation meaning information

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  • The European: Is that what you are hinting at when you say that “it is always easier to find answers than to ask the right questions”? Dyson: Finding answers is easy. The hard part is creating the map that matches specific answers to the right question. That’s what Google did: They used the power of computing – which is cheap and really does not have any limits – to crawl the entire internet and collected and index all the answers. And then,by letting human beings spend their precious time asking the right questions, they created a map between the two. That is a clever way of approaching a problem that would otherwise be incomprehensibly difficult.
  • The European: Is that what you are hinting at when you say that “it is always easier to find answers than to ask the right questions”? Dyson: Finding answers is easy. The hard part is creating the map that matches specific answers to the right question. That’s what Google did: They used the power of computing – which is cheap and really does not have any limits – to crawl the entire internet and collected and index all the answers. And then,by letting human beings spend their precious time asking the right questions, they created a map between the two. That is a clever way of approaching a problem that would otherwise be incomprehensibly difficult.
  • Dyson: Right. We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives.
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  • The European: And we are faced with the task of shaping that process as it unfolds? Dyson: I think that we are generally not very good at making decisions. Mostly, things just happen. And there are some very creative human individuals who provide the sparks to drive that process. History is unpredictable, so the important thing is to stay adaptable. When you go to an unknown island, you don’t go with concrete expectations of what you might find there. Evolution and innovation work like the human immune system: There is a library of possible responses to viruses. The body doesn’t plan ahead trying to predict what the next threat is going to be, it is trying to be ready for anything.
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