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nevver: Barbie Freeny made this. Now I can credit the prior post.
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If attention is indeed the currency of the future, and those who can focus their attention actually gain a competitive advantage and perhaps a marketable skill, then assisting students to become “attention literate” could be every bit as important to after-college success as being a wise consumer of information. Attention Is the New Currency |…
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For everyone else, learning how to embrace instability is the challenge. “What do you do to get everyone engaged on this journey? We all have to learn new skills. Being able to live on one set of skills over a career is not realistic. Change is going to happen, not all of it good, in…
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notational: “Instead of trying to directly challenge American colleges—a daunting proposition, given the political power and public subsidies they possess—the new breed of tech start-ups will likely start by working in the unregulated private sector, where they’ll build what amounts to a parallel higher education universe. A few weeks after returning from the West Coast,…
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The referential sketch serves as a visual diary, a record of an architect’s discovery. It can be as simple as a shorthand notation of a design concept or can describe details of a larger composition. It might not even be a drawing that relates to a building or any time in history. It’s not likely…
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The idea that a company — as a brand and marketer — can be an expert content creator and reach an audience by disintermediating reporters is confusing, threatening and scary to an entire profession that had its way for a century. Inside Forbes: The Advertising Trend That Will Shake Up 100 Years of Journalism –…
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. Anaïs Nin (via explore-blog)
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Futurist Scenarios: Three Futures For China
stoweboyd: A classic futurist scenario-based extrapolation of current trends across the event horizon, but it doesn’t really compel. Micheal Lee spins three scenarios, based on factors in the footnotes, but it’s all so top-down and disconnected to outside influences: Michael Lee, Too Big to Succeed? Three China Scenarios to 2050 The fate of the 21st century…
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And then I got into the philosophy of it, you know? If we’re practically at the end of film after more than 100 years, what does that mean? Interview: Keanu Reeves on “the end of film” – Salon.com
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“Collection of Light 70” is a wonderfully smart new lamp-cum-sculpture by the Swedish design collective called Humans Since 1982, showing for a few more days yet in the Park Avenue gallery at Phillips de Pury auction house. I love the simplicity of making use of the latest lighting technology, simply by presenting it as stock.…