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Observations, ideas and insights. Essays, notes, readings and links from the inter-section… design and research of the digital universes and media spaces.

The Future Momentum - Notes & Links (22-23/2010) 17. June 2010, 07:47

Interesting readings online (week 20-23). Thoughts about collective action and collective intelligence, the characteristics of the cyborgs and the consequences of their presentation, insights about the new ways to make sense of the big data, the true meaning of rational optimism, future thinking and the non-zero-sum dynamic of organic human interaction as well insights about time geography, the dangers of echo chamber and the ways to avoid it…

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A collection of thought sketches (or the microevolution of ideas revealed, part 2) 21. May 2010, 14:08

Other people are like prisms rather than mirrors. They will make our light and our ideas shine in different colors.

The meanings of probable, possible and desirable futures are negotiated with one’s social sphere in a given context. We can make our futures shine through the shared imagination.

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A collection of thought sketches (or the microevolution of ideas revealed, part 1) 6. May 2010, 10:13

Through real-time connectedness – or hyperconnectivity – even our personal thoughts and actions become networked actions.

As networks make us who we are – and if we connect only with like-minded people – how do we maintain the ability to renew our thinking?…

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Visible thoughts, networked actions, personal futures 29. April 2010, 08:48

Because of our digital existence, we are able to know what we said and thought at a given time with a certain accuracy. And we also know what others thought and said about our thoughts or activities. And this “knowing” affects the way we will behave now and in the future. In digital sphere, thoughts and expressions become networked actions, and they will significantly shape our personal futures. And thus, the analysis of visible thoughts and networked actions, might be the key to better understand ourselves and our futures.

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The Future Momentum - Notes & Links (15-16/2010) 26. April 2010, 08:56

Notes and selected readings online (week 15-16). The social, cultural, societal, economical and ecological effects of network culture, an intriguing scientific survey of the art of choosing, how the attitudes towards behavioral marketing are changing, critical review of the recent trends in data visualization, the compatibility of Darwinian thinking and and the cultural evolution of language, remarks about the development of data management in health care and virtual worlds as working environments…

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