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Curated Computing: What’s Next For Devices In A Post-iPad World (by ForresterResearch)

Forrester Research Analyst Sarah Rotman Epps talks about how Apple’s iPad and other tablet devices will usher in a new era of personal computing. Forrester calls this “Curated Computing”— a mode of computing where choice is constrained to deliver less complex, more relevant experiences. There’s more at stake here than just tablets: Curated Computing will be the dominant design principle behind future form factors like wearable devices. Product strategists that don’t want to cede the future of devices to Apple should start thinking like museum curators and editors: Sometimes less is more. Sarah serves Consumer Product Strategy professionals.

(via Robert Scoble - Google - Is Clipboard easy enough curation? Or will Pinterest win…)

Thank you for validating my actions on my Facebook page. I am nearly 74 years old & making FB posts, giving funding to some activist organizations & meditation is about all I am able to do at this stage in my life. I had never heard the word “slacktivism” before reading the FB post on my news feed. Thanks for the encouragement to continue. If you have any suggestions to improve my FB page, please let me know. Thanks again!

— Slacktivism at its Best: New Activists Emerging | Meta-Activism Project

At the heart of our conversation: the relationship between publishers of original content and the web’s most influential curators. Seems simple, right? Content creators get eyeballs and curators get work to share. But with some curators dwarfing publications in size and influence, and with some publishers investing heavily in curation projects of their own, that relationship is getting a little complicated. We’ll get our hands dirty and break down just how important curators and publishers are to each other, how money plays into things and how attribution has become a lost art. Other fun stuff you’ll learn: what makes a curator influential, how content-creators can be curator friendly (and vice versa), and the evolving distinction between curation and aggregation. This Future of Journalism Track is sponsored by The Knight Foundation.

— The Curators and the Curated

While some recent studies have found that investment in facial recognition technologies hasn’t yet yielded great success, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to move the ball forward with a system that can outperform humans at recognizing the emotion behind a person’s smile.

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MIT’s computer algorithms can tell why you’re smiling better than a human can | The Verge

Orwell’s ‘Facecrime’ edges ever so closer …

Singapore’s schools have become global role models, with consistently high results in international tests. But now they want to move beyond this - towards something that cultivates creativity and what they term as ”holistic education”. Minister for Education, Heng Swee Keat, said this is ”less about content knowledge” but ”more about how to process information”. He describes this challenge to innovate as being able to “discern truths from untruths, connect seemingly disparate dots, and create knowledge even as the context changes”.

— BBC News - Singapore wants creativity not cramming

It is that which we do know which is the great hindrance to our learning, not that which we do not know.

— Claude Bernard (via explore-blog)

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Use Learnist to share what you know. Create a Learn Board on a subject you understand and add ‘learnings’ by pointing to existing web videos, blogs, images and documents. Anything. In fact, you’re on a Learn Board right now. (via How To Use Learnist | Learnist)

UNDO – What to do when you unplug →

UNDO was created by people attempting to set aside a day apart from the rest of the week. For most of us, this means that sundown to sundown, Friday to Saturday, we slow down, avoid technology and reconnect with what’s important to us. Some of us follow the principles of the Sabbath Manifesto. Others have our own UNDO Day routines. There isn’t any one way to do it. UNDO is about making it up as we go along.

My dad was a big, tough east London copper. In the days when most coppers were straight. But when I was at art school, we were hippies and the police were pigs. So I was confused. Especially as I was reading George Orwell, writing about his time in the police.

— THE LAW OF CREATIVITY | Dave Trott’s Blog | CST The Gate

History is rich with ‘eureka’ moments: scientists from Archimedes to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are said to have had flashes of inspiration while thinking about other things. But the mechanisms behind this psychological phenomenon have remained unclear. A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander.

— Why great ideas come when you aren’t trying : Nature News & Comment

Living in another country can be a cherished experience, but new research suggests it might also help expand minds. This research, published by the American Psychological Association, is the first of its kind to look at the link between living abroad and creativity. “Gaining experience in foreign cultures has long been a classic prescription for artists interested in stimulating their imaginations or honing their crafts. But does living abroad actually make people more creative?” asks the study’s lead author, William Maddux, PhD, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, a business school with campuses in France and Singapore. “It’s a longstanding question that we feel we’ve been able to begin answering through this research” Maddux and Adam Galinsky, PhD, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, conducted five studies to test the idea that living abroad and creativity are linked. The findings appear in the May issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

— Living outside the box: New evidence shows going abroad linked to creativity | e! Science News

With all the new technology and media options for unique expression, it seems hard to believe that kids today could be getting anything less than more imaginative and creative. But in a 2010 study of 300,000 creativity tests going back over 40 years, a researcher from the College of William and Mary found that since the 1990s American children have become “less imaginative”, “less able to produce unique and unusual ideas” and “less able to elaborate on ideas”. Creativity is innate to humans so while it can’t be lost, it does need to be nurtured… and context plays a big role. According to researcher Ron Beghetto, new developments in education such as the “current focus on testing in schools and the idea that is only one right answer to a question” might be playing a part in creating a hostile environment for creative thought and expression.

— 6 Ways to Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone flutes push back the date researchers think human creativity evolved.

— Bone Flute Means Musical Instruments Date Back 40,000 Years, Scientists Say