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Beloit College Mindset List
Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. The Mindset List website at http://www.beloit.edu/mindset, the Mediasite webcast and its Facebook page receive more than 400,000 hits annually.
Can a Mere Product Design Win a $250,000 Art Prize? | Co.Design
Can a Mere Product Design Win a $250,000 Art Prize?
via Can a Mere Product Design Win a $250,000 Art Prize? | Co.Design.
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother | Fast Company
This vision of the future eerily matches Minority Report, and GRI knows it. “Minority Report is one possible outcome,” admits Carter. “I don’t think that’s our company’s aim, but I think what we’re going to see is an enviroment well beyond what you see in that movie–minus the precogs, of course.”
via Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother | Fast Company.
Top 10 TEDTalks | Video channel on TED.com
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
These are the 10 talks that have proven most popular during our first two years of publishing TED talks free to the world. Each has been watched more than a million times. For a quick overview, watch the highlights video. Or just dive in to the talks, using the links at right.
Of course, these are simply the most popular — not necessarily the best. And we’re always curious to hear about your own favorite TED talks — and the hidden gems you’ve found in the archives.
MILLENNIALS A Portrait of Generation Next
This report represents the Pew Research Center’s most ambitious examination to date of America’s newest generation, the Millennials, many of whom have now crossed into adulthood.
The report sets out to compare the values, attitudes and behaviors of Millennials with those of today’s older adults. And to an extent older adults back when they were the age that Millennials are now.
Pew: Internet Revolution Will Be Slow, Painful – AOL News
Pew: Internet Revolution Will Be Slow, Painful – AOL News.
The Internet may improve our most powerful institutions in the next decade, but a Pew Research Center poll also suggests there is a strong undercurrent of opinion that believes that positive change may be precipitated by a violent electronic revolution.
Some even think that revolution would utterly destroy and remake the old ways of doing business and governing, quite literally in some cases.
TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology | Fast Company
There is a new alchemy of informal learning going on where people working on ideas can publish quickly, fail fast, shine light on successes, get feedback and encouragement from a community, learn from the best, and try again. And the process is speeding up with the help of Web video and its high-bandwidth transmission of information.
via TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology | Fast Company.
The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot | Fast Company
Business is a dogfight. Your job as a leader: Outmaneuver the competition, respond decisively to fast-changing conditions, and defeat your rivals. That’s why the OODA loop, the brainchild of “40 Second” Boyd, an unconventional fighter pilot, is one of today’s most important ideas in battle or in business
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