AIGA recently posted a review of the surge of new interest in designer screeds, Manifesto Mania. My search for new manifesti did not find anything significant from designers this time, but just yesterday the Art of Hosting list pointed me to The Evolutionary Manifesto, which challenges the most overarching doctrine I have seen yet. Although . . . → Read More: Peak Manifesto
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Who says? According to a Harvard/UBC study published in Science, so that’s about as authoritative as possible. How so? The title Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness, tells you something about it. In an HBS interview, co-author Michael Norton explains: “Intentional activities—practices in which people actively and effortfully choose to engage—may represent a promising route . . . → Read More: Flash: Money buys happiness! Joe Weizenbaum died at age 85 last week in Berlin, and a few obscure technology news services have published the story. MIT posted its lauds for their alumnus in a press release yesterday, but his passing has not lit up the news wires. As with many issues in the 21st century, it’s up to the . . . → Read More: Joseph Weizenbaum – A humane vision for technology The push for strong AI must have a spiritual basis, because after trying and failing to achieve “AGI” from Turing to Neural Nets, most researchers learned something about the human beings they were attempting to model. If it could be done, as Battlestar Galactica warns, we would burn many of our bizarre biases and belief . . . → Read More: Cylons are in the pipeline See the fullpost on the CIMI website: Center for Interactive Management, India Dr. Batra’s discussions of “From Data to Wisdom”, and “Laszlo’s Pyramid of Meaning”, describe a hierarchy of types of knowing and understanding. Alexander Laszlo’s notion of syntony, a kind of resonant circuit of meaning related to the levels of knowledge, energizes the pyramid . . . → Read More: Understanding Meaning as Awareness |
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