Originally published to eBridge on Saturday 28 January 2012
I've fallen behind with the discussions
this week with being away, but I should be able to join in more fully from now
on. It's been an interesting week because I attended the Learning Technologies
conference, with an incredible fusion of ideas floating around. Ray Kurzweil
and Jaron Lanier presented flip sides of the technology aspect, with the ideas
of technological singularity and a new form of humanism resonating particularly
strongly.
But the most interesting talk had to be Dr Edward de Bono's. With
more touch-screen and multimedia technology than you can shake a stick at
floating around, the old master took us all back to school with nothing more
than an OHP and pens. Learning to use our own minds more effectively is the
single most important skill that we can master, because otherwise we will be
dumbing ourselves down so much that even the most powerful supercomputers won't
be able to bring meaning to our lives. More thoughts on this to come...
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