An absolutely fantastic 10′ video about motivation, money, purpose, management, engagement… It really gets you thinking if you haven’t started already.
Via @niptechpodcast
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A very short talk at the TED Conference by the American philosopher Daniel Dennet:
In other words, we’re not fond of honey because it’s sweet, but it tastes sweet because our brain loves it. We don’t love our babies because they’re cute, but we find them cute because the contrary would have led us to extinction. Same reasonning for what we feel is sexy. And the best is undoubtedly about humour, which merely reflects how our brain is wired: what a satisfaction it is to us when we eventually understand the underlying mecanisms behind anything. Laughing is our little treat. All this is called the “Hurley model” and will be described in a book to come by Matthew Hurley, Reginald Adams Jr and Dan Dennet.
Via Pharyngula
Enorme! Extrait d’une interview de notre Conseiller Fédéral Moritz Leuenberger dans L’Hebdo du 19 mars 2009:
L’Hebdo: Internet va finir par tuer la presse imprimée. Non?
Moritz: Je le conteste. Se balader avec L’Hebdo dans la main, c’est comme porter un bijou très précieux (sic!) Aussi longtemps que ce sera un symbole de statut social et tant qu’on pourra écraser une mouche avec son journal, la presse imprimée existera. Avec l’internet, on n’a encore jamais réussi à supprimer une mouche.
Voilà un vision construite et argumentée à laquelle on ne peut qu’adhérer sans réserve 
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President Hu Jintao needs to hear that “Made in China” exports and the upcoming Olympics in Beijing will have the support of the world’s people only if he chooses dialogue. But it will take an avalanche of global people power to get his attention. Click below to sign the petition–in just 7 days, the campaign is over half way to the goal of 2 million signatures!
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Notes on the run of the talk by the cybernetician Kevin Warwick.
Just 2 words to say that this is the probably the craziest thing I have ever seen!
During the talk, I had the feeling I was witnessing the birth of Daleks…
Weird…
Paul Dourish (UC Irvine)
On interaction between ethnography and design.
(really experiencing trouble with wi-fi, firefox and wordpress 
)
In short: ethnography IS relevant for design.
Aboriginal navigation vs cartographic navigation relevant for our understanding of mobility.
The wi-fi here is definitely dead
Notes on the run…
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford. Why an anthropologist at Intel’s? Well… There are at least 30 of them there! Intel seems to want to understand what kind of a specie humans actually are.
“Technology changes faster than people do”
A few interesting figures:
- 45% of cellphone users in the UK lie about where they are
- 100% of online dating servicesin the US lie about themselves
- Men tell 20% more lies than women
- We tell somewhere btw 6-200 lies per day! (concealing misbehaviour, increasing popularity, keeping one’s social world ticking over)
We are entering “arms race of digital deception”
- Volker Sommer: self-deception is a part of survival
“secret” or sacred knowledge have deep history in many cultural, religious and political systems. Layers of knowledge – not everything should be known to everyone. Parallels with digital world are quite obvious: cultural ideals on the one hand (lying is bad) and cultural practices on the other.
Cites a research by Danah Boyd : a surprising % of myspaces users are over 100 (restricted access to 14 years and above)
About secrets and sacred, mentions postsecret.blogspot.com
=> Tensions between cultural practices and ideals persist around lies and secrets
=> Do the twin ideas of secrets & lies offer new ways to think about pricavy and security?
Brilliant talk, sorry I’m so lousy out taking notes…
Actually, it’s the same talk as he gave in Reboot in May. Still just as brilliant!
About the online social skills of kids, their parents aren’t even aware of.
The last renaissance was lead by a bunch of Scotts. The second renaissance is lead by people in this room
Don’t think. Try!
Notes on the run…
Steph shares her experience on going freelance and invites all the freelancers to Going Solo, her conference for freelances in March, in which she managed to invite Stowe Boyd as a speaker.
Good luck!
Jonathan Cabiria, whom I had the chance to meet at Lift last year, is a brilliant American psychologist and researcher. I quite enjoyed his talk since he brought social communities back to their evolutionary basics: “We come together to be safe”.
Jonathan and his team have been researching marginalised people and how virtual social networks could bring them back to socialisation in the real world (which was unexpected at the beginning of the study). Virtual worlds can actually help people to feel more real, more authentic and more commited to society.
What it means is, basically, is that “real” and virtual worlds should probably not be viewed as separate worlds. In both cases, we are just social animals.
Brilliant!
