projected during La Fura dels Baus openning show "Tempo de Encontros"

on game design, bias, flow from balancing challenge vs. reward, the power of failure, just-in-time vs. just-in-case learning, social engineering, game-as-service vs. game-as-product, focus on at-risk youth, unqualified "accidental game publishers" vs. game developers & need for national public gaming initiative;

development method: define audience, understand context and desired impact, then select platform, create financial returns, execute, assessment (embedded) Q: what if you took [addictive design of Farmville etc] and applied it to eduction?

@35:00 Q&A re: influence on DoE, 21st century skills, "broken school" channel, NCLB, most tech and game companies are "irresponsible...you have to understand the teachers' needs, you have to reduce the friction for them to adopt [new technologies]"; NCLB, common core standards, Bill Gates' influence on assessment models around 21st century skills, DoE funding vehicles (SBIRs)
@42:00 gaming and addiction, violence, parental engagement and co-play
@47:00 re:business & philanthropy "...as publishers we do the same thing as we'd do as investors. They're two separate vehicles and we don't try to mix the two. There are companies that make money and then give a certain percentage away. When those companies scale, there's tension. If there's a tax on [the business], it's hard to scale. So we tend to focus the alignment in the core product itself vs. making money here and giving money there."
@57:00 part of the reason games like Flow, Flower and Cloud are successful is because all the major gaming platforms have online, downloadable services that enable short-form content that can be experimental
@62:00 on fablabs

Q: Was there something about fin de siécle Vienna that nurtured ferment across intellectual and cultural life?
A: It was a synthesis of many strands, and the reason the ferment occurred is because Emperor Franz Joseph lifted travel restrictions throughout the empire and many of the young and gifted came to Vienna. That explosion in the arts, science, music, economics and philosophy occurred as a result of this influx of talent. The view of the human mind that we now hold in 2012 derives from Vienna 1900, [we're not rational creatures that the enlightenment thought].
Q: How can the lens of neuroscience help us understand something as ineffable as art?
A: Alois Riegl, a great art historian in Vienna in 1900, drew attention to the important problem of “the beholder’s share”—how the viewer responds to a work of art. The artist tries to give you the illusion that you’re seeing the real world in three dimensions in natural color when he’s actually working all the time on two dimensions and with artificial color. To figure out how the brain creates this illusion is a fantastically interesting problem. Two of his students, [art historians] Ernst Kris and Ernst Gombrich, pointed out that what the brain does is recreate the work of art. When you look at a work of art, you’re undergoing the creative challenge that the artist undergoes in making the picture. It’s of a lesser magnitude, but the information coming in through the eyes is incomplete, and you have to fill it in with built-in rules of what is possible in the world combined with previous experiences that allow you to situate this correctly. This requires an immense degree of creativity. They realized the brain is a creativity machine. Subsequent neuroscience has absolutely confirmed that.

@5:58 Some details really matter. Some details provide windows into unchartered realms of reality.
@12:25 We're used to physics giving us definitive explanations for the features we observe, but the point is if the feature you're observing can and does take on a wide variety of different values across the wider landscape of reality, then seeking one explanation for a particular value is simply misguided
@19:33 We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. It appears it may not always be that way.

participant list: http://watsoninstitute.org/euro/?page_id=159

[final segment Q: "Will Europe survive?"]

Kathleen McNamara: "...Yes...but it won't be pretty, and we should not be surprised."

Vivien Ann Schmidt: "...Yes, but not happily...It's conservative politics...We're still without leadership...There's just a bad discourse...This is codependency..."

Wade Jacoby: "...I have the irrepressible impression that we're going to run Goodhart's Law on a massive scale. Every indicator that you can think of to select as a proxy for some kind of good performance, when it becomes public that that's what the commission and the council are counting, will immediately be gamed by a variety of market actors, and those indicators will lose whatever information value they might have once had...Can it all survive the strain? Not in its current form and probably not in the form now envisioned for the future by the council and the commission, and not for lack of trying..."

Jonathan Hopkin of LSE: "...how do we turn voters into constituencies...People go out and vote and they think they're having some impact. Of course they're not, but if they go out and vote they have to think they have some kind of influence."

Peter Hall: "[Yes...there's a resilience in the EU that no one should discount. In minimalist terms, the EU will survive. But can we imagine a feasible path in which the EU is once again prosperous over the next 10-20 years? A weak path, yes. The EU at the moment has no growth strategy. Structural reform is not a growth strategy. Why is the EU clinging to it? Because there is no alternative currently. An alternative will require intense intergovernmental cooperation. Is this politically feasible? What does that mean? Someone else will cover the adjustment costs. We have to look at national electorates. The direction of politicization is toward radicalism. This is very worrisome. What will the EU look like going forward? I think we have to be hopeful, but I think we ought to be very, very worried.]"

Mark Blyth: ends with a 3-minute wrap-up of all the panels, if the Euro can survive all that, it can survive anything, but the EU and the Euro are at odds, fundamentally, and when you destroy trust between people, you destroy everything (implication: requires cultural and social approaches, not just technocratic and political ones; the burden is on people to discard their old ways of looking at themselves)

@5:55 One of the things I want to talk about in this book is not just challenging incumbent interests, but also challenging incumbent language, incumbent ways of describing our reality that are holding us back in our own minds. If we can't progress in our own minds, we can't progress in society...We have to get past this 20th century language that's saddled with the burdens of the past that is disappearing so rapidly before us that we don't even have time to adjust, and part of the adjustment is finding new language and new ways of describing our circumstances and the possibilities for the future.

@10:30 Stop comparing with other countries. Americans should be more American.

the Good Judgment Project – and the IARPA forecasting tournament of which our Project is one part – hope to harness the wisdom of the crowd to help people make better-informed decisions.

the concepts of control, choice, or decision do not imply that a conscious subject is in charge of the process; the concepts simply describe the fact that control devices in the organism regulate its operations relative to the critical goals it has to achieve: maintain life; secure the integrity of the soma; continue the species; manage the social environment [...]

emotions have been built on the backgrounds of drives and motivations

@33:45 the prodigious expansion of memory, symbol manipulation, and consciousness has allowed humans to create instruments of social and political organization, economy and finance as well as moral systems, law, medicine, arts, science and technology...all of these systems are projections of our biological systems

@35:15 when we talk about fallibility and reflexivity, we're dealing with problems that have come out of the fact that we have this relatively new system that is full of imperfections. We can not predict the future even if we know a lot. We also have a system that we tend to believe is perfect [and that] if you treat it with the attitude of a natural scientist...we convince ourselves these systems have a perfection and a capacity I doubt they have.

@46:30 Yves! asks Q re: cognition v. pattern recognition; different levels of rationality; "democratic deficit" throughout Europe

Yanis responds:
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2012/04/18/the-modest-proposal-and-the-democratic-deficit/

George Soros: "...the Euro has really broken down. It has sprung defects...and effectively, the heavily indebted countries have ended up in the position of a third world country - heavily indebted in a foreign currency. That's only one of the unanticipated results...The Euro crisis is a...sovereign debt crisis, it's a balance of payments crisis, it's a banking crisis, it's a competitiveness crisis, it's a structural [crisis]...The fact is we are very far from [rational expectations equilibrium]...when peoples' understanding of the situation actually corresponds to the situation. Right now there is a tremendous gap [...] This cognitive dissonance has created a political dynamic that is going to destroy, not only the Euro, [but also the common market and the Europe Union itself...] with worse conflicts between the European states than existed before the Euro..."

here he turns his attention to The Wire, a show he identifies as the “crown jewel” in the golden age of TV. Like anyone else, Lavik admits that The Wire’s greatest achievements were in dialog, character, and plot, but then goes on to make an argument that the show’s unusual and disciplined shooting style contributed, seamlessly, to the impact of the end product. The result of this style was a show that allowed viewers the satisfaction of discovering the beauty of a story, instead of having it explicitly and repeatedly pointed out to them.

"For several years now, I’ve had an interest in the potential that digital technology has to reinvigorate film and television criticism," says Lavik of his labor-intensive project.

[whoa @9:00 - ]

ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.

advert for the Guardian's open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion.

"I simply cannot in any way rely on Apple for my livelihood. [So why have I not learned my lesson? Because Mac users go to the Apple app store to discover and buy apps. We Linux users don't do that. I might find something in the Ubuntu software center, but I usually buy it right from the developer's website.]" background: http://savemyhousefromapple.com/

obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/john-fairfax-who-rowed-across-oceans-dies-at-74.html

"At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.

At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate."

Perhaps the crucial moral to my story is that to understand the eurocrisis we must remember that there is no such thing as "The Greeks" or "The Germans".

@9:50 this notion of "mental" and "physical" is obviously specious...as far as the brain in concerned, the change is due not to the sheer simple contraction of muscle, but to the thought that preceded it.
@27:45 look at me, mommy, look at me all the time...because if you don't look at me, perhaps I don't exist...we might be living in this world...of incessant feedback and readout where there's nothing going on in the middle.
@30:55 [an idea is] seeing one thing in terms of something else in a new way. If you can't understand, it won't have much value...we see an increase in IQ scores, [but] we haven't seen an increase in insight into...the economic crisis [for example]. Just because you can process information, it is not knowledge, and just because you are fast at responding to things as though you were a computer yourself (and that's probably quite likely because if you've evolved to communicate with a computer, you'll be like one) that doesn't mean to say you understand things, that doesn't mean to say things have a significance. The princess [in a video game] doesn't have a significance because she's not connected to anything in a game, she's just there as a fact [you can manipulate], whereas a princess in a story is relevant because she has [time-space relationships].
@39:30 we for the first time have the power to shape our own environments, the environments that are so critical to making each person the individual they are, but [we have to] be constructive...because we could go spectacularly wrong here. "Mind Change" could be the most fantastic opportunity we've ever had to really, truly recognize our human potential.

"...it's gotta be a disorder because it's crazy, man..."

"...I'm just a competitor at heart, always been."

Presidential Election Ads: Republican Primary

"...the GE logo. That's where my grandpa works..."

[Zach Wahls' mom]

The wave rolls onwards, lurching forwards with a power that seems so benign from afar. It throws itself in a powerful lunge, crashes down and topples everything in its path – but for the ocean swimmers who know that to survive a wave is to dive deep.

Part 2: "while we can do lots of rational things...with computers and calculations...to work out all the things that might be affecting the price of securities, all the time, because of uncertainty, we never really know, and the only way we can manage that is telling a story...stories can change much quicker than underlying economic fundamentals [...] we may need to create stories...which will help people to get anxious [in order to keep bubbles from getting out of hand]."

regulating institutions of advanced economies are assumed to be efficient; policy-making in developing countries is experimental, "more almost a business mindset, in a way" [...]

the willingness to constrain and for the people to accept constraints is an advantage as we enter into an era in which we don't have unlimited natural resources...[policy makers in developing economies] impose constraints we would view as infringements on the territories we have traditionally viewed as free choice [...]

in the US, 27 million tradable jobs (value creating, ie: manufacturing, farming, raw materials, education, tech svcs.) have been swallowed up by non-tradable jobs (value transference, ie: construction, retail, health care, legal, restaurants) as enabled by over-consumption

part V re: Germans under Schroeder circa 2000 found themselves with a productivity problem, and they were hurt more than helped by the global economy. They focused on unions, job creation and wise outsourcing in order to address inequity of income distribution (though they did not have inequity of income distribution to the extent US does now). Schroeder lost the next election, but his leadership seems to have increased Germany's resilience.

As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.

@7:12 Here's what I found: in some incredibly important market segments, Apple is extraordinarily relevant...Apple is executing wonderfully on many of the wrong things...I found people that can't wait to fall in line behind a good strategy.

What I see is the makings of a very healthy company...This change needs to start at the top, with the Board of Directors. Apple needs to find where it is still incredibly relevant and focus on those areas. It needs to identify what its core assets are, and invest more in them. It has to forge some meaningful partnerships, and it needs to define some new product paradigms.

@14:20 [soundbites from the new BoD]

Larry Ellison: I think Apple needs to worry less about competing with Microsoft and worry more about doing things that are different.

Bill Campbell: Confidence has to start with a clear vision. What are we trying to accomplish? What are we trying to do? You take that vision down to a strategy, people have to be able to look at it and say 'Yes, we can do that'.

Gareth Chang: First thing we need to do is inject new energy, new thoughts.

Where were the materials sourced? Who made it? Why was it made? Where was it made and under what conditions? I believe the connection between an item and its user can and should be an emotional one that is reinforced by these stories.

"...the models weren't even good enough to be wrong."

http://ineteconomics.org/30-ways-be-economist/

1. a parallel financial system emerges [from user generated productivity]
2. innovation is predictable*
3. everyone is a corporation
4. the resume goes away
5. the college degree goes away
6. teachers & schools take an equity position in students
7. a universal knowledge inventory is built
8. public advertising disappears
9. method of storing and exchanging value will be completely altered

This economy is crazy and poisonous. I am an economist, and I have been fighting against the economy that is taught the way it is being taught and being practiced. I have been fighting it for almost 40 years of my life, because it’s an absurd economy that has nothing to do with real life.

Part III of video interview:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/public-education/is-poverty-the-key-factor-in-student-outcomes/

[...] Then Wendy says something extremely revealing.  In her new push for why we need more leaders to create transformational schools in which teachers can more easily succeed, she admits that it is “rare” for a teacher to be such a superhero that he / she can have a big impact in a school that is not transformational.  [This] runs counter to two things about TFA.  The first is that TFA thrives on claiming how many of their corps members are being transformational outside of a transformational school.  Now she is admitting it is “rare.”  The other is that training teachers to be effective in dysfunctional schools is the original mission of TFA and why I signed up to do it 20 years ago.  Having followed TFA since 1991, I see that TFA is on its third mission.  The first was to fill voids in hard-to-staff school systems.  When I taught in Houston, there was such a shortage of teachers that had it not been for me, my classes may have been taught by a rotating group of substitutes.  Even though I was not very effective, at least I was someone who was consistently there.  TFA made a new mission, also a good one, around 1994 — to really close the achievement gap.  When that mission didn’t work out, they put all their eggs into a new basket:  develop these tranformational leaders who can lead schools that can succeed with mortal teachers.  This is a strange new ‘silver bullet,’ particularly when we see the lack of wisdom that the high profile TFA leaders have demonstrated.

This statement about how rare transformational teachers are is one of the most honest things I’ve ever heard from TFA.  I’m genuinely surprised she would admit it.  It’s like she’s saying that the first two missions of TFA were failures, but now we’ve figured out the true way to fix this problem, so support us on this new ‘leadership’ mission.  They were wrong about their first two missions, why should we trust they have now figured it out?  The best leaders I know from TFA are people who taught at least 7 years.  The high profile leaders that are TFA celebrities have generally taught 2 or 3 years.  This is why they lack the wisdom to know in which direction to lead.

four forces doing everything they can to eliminate freedom on the net:

1. governments concerned about loss of control
2. content owners
3. data miners
4. network operators

...via platforms that control, influence and limit our behaviors.

"When you have lived your entire life sharing everything, it may not have occurred to you that human personality used to be created internally, that the struggle of the soul to understand itself and its place in the universe is an internal struggle, not to be decided by an advertiser and not to be adjusted by an intermediary...we need anonymity."

*Anne Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) on "DIY Foreign Policy": http://livestre.am/Oozk (and part 2!)

"...division was the starting point of foreign policy in The Cold War...[Now] we start with connection...non-state actors...and social actors, all of whom can be connected to each other in ever-changing ways with ever-evolving identities...[Christakis, Gladwell]...what all of us can do to engage in addressing global problems - which is the business of foreign policy: map, connect and create. [...Alaa abd el Fattah on Egypt: 'The internet was a platform where we could connect social groups so we could build critical mass without having to liberate an entire institution'...] We can, in every domain, build local, go global and change the world."

*Ben Rattray (@Brattray) from change.org on "Big Problems, Small Solutions": http://livestre.am/Onf1

"...Even if all you care about is national legislation, the most effective means to achieve that end, in many cases, is not to pursue it directly, it's to win locally, all across the country, engaging people through personal narratives and building a movement much broader in scope and deeper in commitment than what currently exists, and in the process creating an environment within which national change is possible."

@40:25 This is a time when we have to make very deep changes...The empire is dying, the welfare state it made possible is no longer possible. We have to begin recreating our relationships with one another and with the rest of the world. We have to create the world anew. We're very privileged to be part of that moment.
@47:20 If 10K students are dropping out of school every year, creating a huge fiscal crisis, is that a financial question, or have the schools failed? We have to begin looking at our children in terms of how they can be part of the solving of our cities' problems and not isolated in classrooms
@49:15 it's very difficult for someone who doesn't live in Detroit to look at a vacant lot, and instead of seeing devastation, see hope, see opportunity to grow your own food, to give young people a sense of process. The vacant lot represents the possibility for cultural revolution

Seagull stole my video camera in Cannes France. I found it on the castle wall, where I had to climb.

Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota

a review:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2011/jun/10/nico-muhly-two-boys-facebook-opera

"If Two Boys lives up to the potential of its music and its story, it will be a searing night at the theatre that will do more than make you delete a few friends on Facebook. It should force you to think about the complexities of human identity and relationships, on- and offline, as well as confront you with some of the freshest music in the opera house in the 21st century."

(contentious!) panel and interview w/ Will Self, Norman Lebrecht, Claire Fox, Nico Muhly:
http://www.insideopera.com/859/the-big-debate/

[ http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations.html ]

others- Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi,Albert-László Barabási:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/10/13/albert-laszlo-barabasi-and-scale-free-networks/

The third scenario might be called “open access to learning,” or “caterpillar learns to fly.” Here schools cease to play the determining role in what constitutes knowledge and learning. ...Schools are on their own, competing with other types of service providers and learning modalities for the interest and loyalty of students and their parents. A family might combine services from two or three different organizations into a learning plan ...Schools, as we presently know them, would gradually cease to exist and be replaced by social networks organized around the learning goals of students and their families.

[re: libraries; also see first comment
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/are-librarians-not-seth-godin-the-ones-missing-the-point-on-libraries/

Richard Elmore:
what would happen if we simply opened the doors and let the students go; if we let them walk out of the dim light of the overhead projector into the sunlight; if we let them decide how, or whether, to engage this monolith? Would it be so terrible? Could it be worse than what they are currently experiencing? Would adults look at young people differently if they had to confront their children on the street, rather than locking them away in institutions?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/38457 ]

80% of capital is intangible, off balance sheets: peoples' knowledge, relationships, structural & strategic capital

we "make things out of intangibles" in the current economic model; extract, separate wealth from its systems so we can trade it

FOUR levels of wealth in living systems:
(a) what can be traded
(b) what can be measured (ie: the properties of the system; often measurable & divisible)
(c) performance layer (ordinal rankings); this layer is dynamic but we take a snapshot of flows in multi-dimensional systems. We need (to allow new) kinds of measurements (to emerge) that support healthy dynamics and empower value at every layer
(d) relationships between all parts & to the environment

create a platform of "fractionated sovereignty" to "open source the next economy": self-regulating markets & scalar gift economies

[Money & Life (@moneylifemovie) Trailer: Can we use the opportunity of the economic crisis to re-discover real wealth and true prosperity and transition to a sustainable, equitable and restorative economic system for the 21st century? http://vimeo.com/23563187 ]

How do you provide an easy access point for new readers, especially for a constantly developing story like last year's oil spill—or even better, hydraulic fracturing?

The answer, according to some of the best minds in new media, is Schoolhouse Rock.

[ The New Mediators, "Crisis of Credit":
http://newmediators.com/crisis-of-credit ]

Escenas tomadas desde Tenerife, a más de 2.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar y a lo largo de un año, para poder captar todos los posibles matices, nubes, estrellas, colores desde un paisaje único y desde uno de los mejores cielos del planeta.

@13:30 ...there are interactions which are not recognized by the formal economy but if we can find a way to draw attention to them and their vitality, we can draw in the marginalized members of our community and activities in our neighborhoods that provide the basis for everything else | http://www.timebanks.org/directory.htm |

Matt Ridley: http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/mar/22/deep-optimism/
@11:30 "[poverty is declining worldwide, even in Africa...] The real metric of prosperity is time...the reduction in the amount of time you have to spend to fill a need or a demand. [Isolated Tasmanian tribes gave up certain technologies b/c their society wasn't large enough, connected enough to keep specialization evolving]...the knowledge necessary to make our technologies is distributed across society, it is not held in individual brains...what counts is not how clever a group of people are, but how well they're communicating, and that's why central planning doesn't work: because you're asking one person to be cleverer than the collective (from: "I, Pencil", Leonard Read)

we are a service industry where relationship over time is the primary product, so how we select people and train people needs to be changed

Note primary dx @21:00

@23:50 "they give me what I and my team have defined I need, when, where and how I want and need it...my questions and concerns are answered, my care is coordinated, my values and goals are what drive my health plans."

Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data
http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_goetz_it_s_time_to_redesign_medical_data.html

we can tap a really underutilized resource in healthcare, which is the patient.

give people information that leads them to make better decisions

personalized information works to change behavior, scare tactics do not

financial crisis is "...a story about us - people - being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about."

novelty/tradition; other/self;
"we've created an economics and systems that encourage one quadrant of the human heart...a new economics is not about changing human nature but rather about allowing ourselves to become fully human and building institutions to protect us and our ecological assets"

***

Jeremy Rifkin's "empathic civilization":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g

[some mirror neuron woo]
aggression, violence, self-interest, utilitarianism;
sociability, attachment, affection, companionship;
communications revolutions annihilate time and space and allow for loyalties based on larger and more complex units; extended identities

***

"Social gaming" conversation on MeFi:
http://www.metafilter.com/101676/Spoiler-alert-they-misspell-pwned
"Now you can send your real cash payments to Microsoft right from your Window Live enabled facebook phone, and receive a virtual cow and a pair of virtual ruby red slippers in return..."

Arev Manoukian directs a dramatic and visual short film.
Nuit Blanche explores an experience many of us have lived before – a fleeting yet powerful connection with a perfect stranger.

Jamie Stuart's short film documents the Blizzard of 2010 in Astoria

From beginning to end, the eclipse will last about three hours and twenty-eight minutes. For observers on the east coast of the U.S. the eclipse lasts from 1:33am EST through 5:01 a.m. EST.
[12 stages: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40740568/ns/technology_and_science-space/

time lapse:
http://vimeo.com/18046748

photos:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/a_chilly_solstice_and_lunar_ec.html ]

Development of The Cell was funded by a $2.5 million grant made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In other words, this is stimulus money at work "to serve the public in an effort to cure disease ultimately — and advance scientific research,"

"math has been liberated from calculating"

[comments section!]

life expectancy and wealth

By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a "holographic" representation of the persons or objects that were captured.

Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.

http://projecthdesign.org/

[it's only 3 minutes: complex vs. complicated]

the ideas in the film treat the surface as a focus, rather than the channel or the content delivered. Here, media includes messages from friends and social services [...]

All surfaces have access to connectivity. All surfaces are displays responsive to people, context, and timing [...]

In contrast to a Minority Report future of aggressive messages competing for a conspicuously finite attention, these sketches show a landscape of ignorable surfaces capitalising on their context, timing and your history to quietly play and present in the corners of our lives.

@0:30 the way we participate in each others' stories is deeply important
@4:15 what is microfinance
@6:00 "...beautiful details of life change that were meaningful" to [goat herders in Africa who had received microloans]...if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything I probably would have gotten a lot wrong because the best way for people to change their lives is for them to have control.
@9:00 2006:500K; 2007:15million; 2008: 40 million; 2009: 100 million; 2010: 150 million...200 countries
@9:45 Kiva's really about stories. It's about re-telling the story of "The Poor". And it's about giving ourselves an opportunity to engage that validates their dignity

Dan Willingham's critique:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/daniel-willingham/willingham-is-a-paradigm-shift.html

chance favors a connected mind

from TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html -

SBJ in WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503730101860838.html -

[what he says about dialog in the middle and what he says about reality tv in the end; "self censorship".

from NY Mag:
http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319/

NYer:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas?currentPage=all ]

@2:40 what would our natural rhythm look like? What would our sleeping patterns be...when people are living w/out any artificial light at all, they sleep twice every night...from 8pm-midnight and 2am-sunrise. In between they have a meditative quiet and during this time there is a surge of prolactin, the likes of which a modern never sees. The people in these studies report feeling so awake during the daytime that they realize they're experiencing wakefulness for the first time.

turn data into landscape

@3:00 Mountains out of Molehills

@5:00 ...data is the new oil. Data is a kind of ubiquitous resource we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights...data is the new soil...[a] fertile, creative medium

@12:00 "Snake Oil?" [nutrition & supplements visualization & app - wow wow wow!]

@13:30 "knowledge compression"

We are entering the Anthropocene, a new geological era in which our activities are threatening the Earth´s capacity to regulate itself.

@8:00 ...our old paradigm of analyzing and pushing and predicting parameters into the future aiming at minimalizing environmental impacts is of the past. Now we have to ask ourselves: which are the large environmental processes that we have to be stewards of to keep ourselves safe in the Holocene and could we even...identify the...points where we may expect non-linear change and could we even define a planetary boundary...within which we have a safe operating system for humanity...we can only find NINE boundaries [including climate, ozone depletion, ocean acidification]

@12:00 ...the drama is that 200 countries have to simultaneously start moving in the same direction. But it changes fundamentally our government and management paradigm, from the current linear, command-and-control thinking, looking at efficiencies and optimization, towards a much more flexible and adaptive approach where we recognize that redundancy in social and environmental systems is key to be able to deal with the turbulent era of global change

[persistence to withstand shocks, transformation from crisis to innovation, adaptation]

@13:00 examples of new approach: Latin American farmers, Australian Great Barrier Reef, Swedish wetlands

@15:45 Elinor Ostrom's work clearly shows that we can govern the commons if we invest in trust, local action-based partnerships and cross-scale institutional innovations

[see Umair's write-up after Ostrom's Nobel:
http://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:ddef9f501c1d
-and-
Lewis Hyde (author: The Gift) on The Commons:
http://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:a60ab6dde9d3 ]

@17:20 ...incremental change is not an option. We are facing the largest transformative development since industrialization. In fact, what we have to do over the next 40 years is much more dramatic...than what we did when we moved into the situation we're in today.

1. call everything an experiment
2. when you're given the go-ahead from authorities, go fast
3. build up a user base
4. when you achieve your objective, don't be afraid to be nice
5. keep asking, keep re-phrasing the question
6. when you get the microphone, make your point clearly
7. get standing
8. try to get the bureaucrats to threaten you
9. look for over-reaching
10. don't be afraid to fail