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Book in Progress: Lumières du Nord

  • Introduction
  • 1. Valeurs Comparées
  • 2. Le Contrat Social
  • 3. L'esprit des Lumières
  • 4. La Démocratie en Mouvement
  • 5. Eduquer pour vivre en Société

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Mon cerveau droit se rebiffe…

Décidément, les histoires de cerveau, j’aime bien. Dans une vie antérieure, j’ai même passé une soirée assise à côté d’un neurobiologiste suédois, disciple de Damasio, à le questionner sur ses recherches alors qu’il rêvait sans aucun doute d’autres sujets de conversation… comme la météo du week-end et le dernier Star Wars ! Alors quand le cerveau se retrouve propulsé aux premières lignes des débats sur le management, je lève le sourcil et je tire sur tous les fils que je trouve.

Mon sujet du jour, c’est la réhabilitation du cerveau droit dans la vie corporate américaine, décrite en partie dans cet article de Wired : Revenge of the right brain, et dans une multitude de livres et de publications de management. Parce que, de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique, on se demande vraiment où il est passé ce cerveau droit, lieu de l’émotion, de la créativité, de la synthèse, de la contextualisation. Lieu de la philosophie ? A force de découper les tâches en process discrets, reproductibles, contrôlables, de tout vouloir régir par recettes, on commence à se demander ce qu’il est advenu de la capacité à penser, et à rattacher les morceaux à un tout chargé de sens. On commence à redouter les effets d’une spécialisation et d’une taylorisation massive et définitive du management, avec ses outils et ses méthodologies qui mènent dans le mur dès qu’un grain de sable se glisse dans la machine ou que le référentiel est différent. L’inquiétude est d’autant plus grande qu’après les emplois industriels, ce sont les emplois tertiaires spécialisés de plus en plus qualifiés qui sont exportés vers l’Inde et la Chine où le taux et la qualité de l’éducation ne cesse de progresser. Dans ce contexte, la valeur ajoutée occidentale vient forcément de la capacité à créer, inventer, sortir du carré, conceptualiser, contextualiser, donner un sens, gérer le relationnel et le multiculturel…bref, de la capacité à penser, s’adapter et mobiliser censée caractériser le leader du XXIè siècle… L’avenir est au cerveau droit. Et sur ce plan, l’éducation supérieure européenne a sans doute une carte à jouer.

Posted by Helene on May 11, 2005 at 02:52 PM in All in French, Connections | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

Technology makes kids dumb!

An interesting article I discovered on Loïc le Meur's blog.

Modern technology depletes human cognitive abilities more rapidly than drugs, and is dumbing down the population more rapidly than television according to a psychiatric study conducted at King's College, London.

Messaging users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users, in a clinical trial of over a thousand participants. Doziness, lethargy and an inability to focus are classic characteristics of a spliffhead, but messaging users exhibited these particular symptoms to a "startling" degree, according to the study.

Another study of 100,000 school children in over 30 countries around the world testified that non-computer using kids performed better in literacy and numeracy than PC-using children who neglect their homework. Awash with facts, children don’t know what to do with the information they access, how to prioritize. They lose their creativity and imagination, their ability to analyze and build coherent arguments, they've forgotten how to think.... Education experts have dubbed it the "problem solving deficit disorder".

Extract from theregister.co.uk, April 22, 2005

Ok girls, I need your constructive comments on this with the right facts, arguments and counter-examples, quick! Otherwise, my friends who think I'm crazy to let each of you own a computer and do what you want with it are right. And I should put a halt to all of this for your IQ's, your EQ's and your critical thinking’s sake...

Posted by Helene on April 29, 2005 at 12:03 AM in All in English, Connections, Conversations with my daughters, Prospective | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

Social Network Analysis

A new thread to pull!!

I just discovered a whole new world. The common denominator between LinkedIn and The Brain, ties between people and content patterns, Social Network Analysis applied to Information Architecture with implications in virtual and real community management, knowledge management, and certainly much more.

So far, I found 2 interesting articles , and I will be  investigating further from there...

What is Network Analysis? by the International Network for SNA
Social Network Analysis by Semantic

This leads to applications in:

  • leadership, power & influence, information flow
  • new relationship models based on sharing and openness -p-to-p or new business models based on telesales, web & techno based franchises, and... How to make big bucks -and spam the whole world- from home with your computer... -a darker side...

Posted by Helene on March 25, 2005 at 12:14 PM in All in English, Connections | Permalink | Comments (0)

Brains and Clusters

Arriver_2Applied to language, dynamic data visualization can become stunning! Here is a Visual Thesaurus that connects words through their meanings. Most interesting is the international version, combining meaning and translations -Click to enlarge. Fascinating in its design and concept! Visual Thesaurus

When will we be able to perform our internet searches, or organize our bookmarks in such an intuitive way?

Posted by Helene on March 12, 2005 at 02:28 AM in All in English, Connections | Permalink | Comments (0)

I've got brains...

Usually, when I start on a project, I spend hours wondering and pondering on how I will design the frame in which it will develop. Meaning specifically in the case of this blog... How I will organize my thoughts, articles and categories, and arrange the boxes in which they will be sorted and maybe buried forever... How I will tunnel my way in the super hierarchical structure created to reflect how my thoughts and manias are connected to each other... How this hierarchy with all these nice and tidy boxes related by links that never cross each other will sustain the pace of evolution... How I will keep on connecting people, projects, objects, information and ideas ad nutum without getting lost in the process...

MybrainStarting from today, my computer has new brains... I found a navigation tool that enables me to organize my ideas in clusters  -Click to enlarge

That's terrific!

It's worth to have a look at: The Brain Technology

This is no innovation. The product has been on the market for 4 years. The layout could be improved. Why didn't it breakthrough? It's hard to create new reflexes...

A similar concepts is also proposed by Thinkmap.

Some people wonder how I can work so "illogically". How I can "circle around" projects and ideas, pull so many threads at the same time, make so many steps in various directions, and then manage to come up with rather thought-out and effective solutions. It's just another logic. Research mode approaches the subject by every possible angle and confronts ideas! This definitely seems messy... But that's how out-of-the-box & creative results are attained -yes! yes!-. This type of software makes the approach easier.

How do people's minds work, how do they process information, what are the different reasoning methods? I would like to dig into that!

Posted by Helene on March 05, 2005 at 06:32 AM in All in English, Connections | Permalink | Comments (1)

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