tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36412774850249826382024-03-14T09:05:54.510+01:00Chris Harris FuturesAuthor, Speaker, and Consultant on Hyperinnovation, Future Studies, GigaMarket$, The New Industrial Revolution, and Advanced Robotics and (iRev) Intelligence Revolution.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06673482775003522655noreply@blogger.comBlogger695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641277485024982638.post-56631045292555763972017-10-03T06:23:00.002+01:002017-10-03T11:40:01.669+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>‘</i><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mahatmagan150720.html" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" title="view quote"><span class="bqquotelink1"><i><span style="color: windowtext;">Poverty is the worst form of violence.</span></i></span></a><i>’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They overtly say that 4 billion people on this planet live under or somewhere around the so-called <i>poverty-line</i>. A fiscal measure of living on, or below 2 dollars per capita PPP a day. And of course they must know, <i>they are wise</i> after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, I have been around for 50 years and travelled the world. Yes, much has been at the behest of corporate edicts and generous expenses; but much has been at the will of a rucksack and walking shoes around inner India, Africa and East Asia. And my experiences and definition of poverty is far from merely fiscal. So let me tell you what poverty is: <i>it is complex!<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A huge variable condition set by growing populations outpacing productivity, ultimately leading to extreme economic margin (the best economic metric, that says it all - And I mean all!!!).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In times of crisis it is children and families wasting away; babies shrilling and emaciated souls lying curled up in filthy rags. It is in access to clean water, sustenance, basic medicines and shelter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it is the immeasurable lack of voice, resolve and loss of dignity that truly opens up comprehension to poverty. It is subjection to exploitation and exposure to indifference, humiliation and inhumane treatment from not merely the <i>haves</i>; but the public services and instruments from which the poor look for help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It means emotional pain, server anxiety and fear, and bone deep tears caused by infringement of basic human rights and sensibilities that <i>you</i> the reader take for granted. It is an inability, even curfew to maintain cultural identity, customs, traditions and personal beliefs; an insufferable incapacity to participate in society and breakdown in equality; and not least, it is vulnerability and exposure to dangers, risks and gross uncertainties that whither character and soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hence, the definition of living on under 730 dollars a year does not even begin to break the surface of describing what 4 billion people wake up to every day. On my journeys I have spoken to many trapped in a spectrum of dearth. I asked them to tell me their experiences: <i>‘I can’t voice my opinion. And when I do speak, they talk over me. I ask for little, but they also have little to give as well. I feel demoralised, anxious and a feeling of second citizen to people I know I should be equal.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, that is real poverty; and a prospective that few in the advanced nation economies get to understand; even when in fact it can be knocking at your door. Because the surprise here, however, is the person I spoke to just above, lives at YMCA in Brighton, my home town in the UK. Not Somalia or Ethiopia. But in one of the highest living standard cities in the world!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, why am I talking about poverty when my theme of GigaMarket$ is fundamentally about creating billion dollar markets? Well, as I have said many times before: <i>there is plenty of value at the bottom;</i> and yet another market paradox bordering on the ironic. How can a multiple billion dollar markets exist in hopeless poverty? In fact: is this not unprincipled, even immoral thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Far from it! Hopeless poverty is just that, if it is left at that. Because by viewing hardship and living deficiencies as a way to target products and services that relieve such deprivation, then that is yet another strategy for ending poverty! And this is something we must take exceedingly serious, because in terms of population growth, by 2030, Asia and Africa will account for ~87 percent, where the majority of world poverty resides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet under this extreme inhuman context <em>necessity is often the mother of invention. A reality that goes back before language was even invented: put people’s back against the wall whether in a slum city or rural out back; and ingenuity will spring fourth.</em><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now take this context in the broad world of corporate reality! Often the only necessity of invention is to meet a trite mission statement, a quarterly profit target or the ego of a brow beating boss. Not much stimulation for innovation when compared to some young person starving on the streets of Calcutta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">This is further compounded by bureaucratic practise and norms. As ingrained routine can be a very comfortable potbelly. It can lead to delusional and untimely a dangerous poison: <i>‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’</i> when over 80 percent of world’s economy over the next 20 years will grow and exist in the BRICS, E7 and E11 nations; together with unimaginable business models and concepts built and distributed at a cost simply unobtainable in the rich potbelled west.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The base of the economic pyramid may well swell to 6 billion by 2040 according to The World Bank, as the majority of new birth wills occur there. Another view is that at least a billion people will rise from the base to lower middle income over the next decade. Yet my view, influenced by the Kurzweilean view is that these numbers may be out by half a magnitude. There will of course always be poverty. Poverty has many varieties, depths and conditions. But the materially poorest – at least as we have abjectly known it – may altogether have disappear by 2030. Don’t forget <i>‘The Singularity is Near!’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Living at the bottom of the global economic pyramid today is an indictment upon mankind. It is wrong beyond words. But as the numbers show, throwing never-ending zero-sum aid at the problem <i>alone</i> only creates yet more demand for yet more aid. Relief is just that. Ultimately aid <i>is</i> merely a Band-Aid. It fills a hole for a time only leaving a more intense heartache.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many dearth regions are immensely hot, arid or humid. Often sodden with floods or monsoons. Drinking water is regularly and suddenly sparse or spoilt. Hence the second leading cause of death in children under five – everywhere – is lack of access to clean water. Vast waves of helpless families and forsaken children dehydrating away. Across these menacing worlds are ranges of killer Bactria thriving in spoilt waters trigging diseases like Diarrhoea and Diphtheria. And even if you survive you often face a 20+ mile hike to the river, again often spoilt by toxins and waste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even in the face of the Millennium Development Goal to half the number of people with in-access to safe drinking water by 2015, the WHO and UNICEF <i>‘Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation’ </i>recently<i> </i>reviled an estimated ~900 million people in the world - ~37 percent of who live in Sub-Saharan Africa - still use unimproved sources of drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But what if you could <i>cleanse</i> filthy water instantly, cheaply, reliably, and under such sparse conditions? I do not merely mean dirty, I mean viral-bacteria. That would be a feat. This is where the new likes of <i>Slingshot</i> comes in. A vapour compression distillation system that runs on very low levels of electricity. Through boiling and evaporation, this ingenious gadget can clean and purify anything from ocean water to raw sewage. A single Slingshot unit can purify up to 300,000 litres of water a year or enough daily drinking water for about 300 people. It is hoped that by the end 2014, distribution should extend to India, the Middle East and Asia. Slingshot’s mass is about 200 pounds, can fit in the back of a truck, and when placed in a kiosk it will run on solar power or biofuel.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ppJBJr96oCw/VXGyXx7K-VI/AAAAAAAAD18/sPeaDjFf5SQ/s1600/lifesaver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0b5394; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ppJBJr96oCw/VXGyXx7K-VI/AAAAAAAAD18/sPeaDjFf5SQ/s200/lifesaver.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="145" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And if your tribe or pod is on the move, then there is an enlivening piece of non-chemical nanotechnology - by the extraordinary water-treatment inventor Michael Pritchard - called <i>Lifesaver Bottle</i>: a hand-sized, portable, flask-like system that filters out any contaminates down to 15nm, which essentially gets rid of anything that could harm you (the smallest virus is 25nm). So you are out in the bush, you find a murky pond; undo the top and bottom caps. Find/devise a vassal to scoop the dark water into the bottom end receptacle. Put the bottom cap, work the internal pump to compel the mucky water through the nano-filter. Then a gush of fresh, uncontaminated, crystal clear water spurts out the top for instant sustenance.<i> </i>This idea, this wonderful life saving gadget came to Pritchard during the double tragedies of the Hurricane Katrina and Asian tsunami. The live broadcasts of multitudes of desperate refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water set the marvel inventor on an inexorable mission: clean water anywhere and time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Clearly natural disasters happen unpredictability. But 100+ degrees summer heat is a sub-equatorial norm. People living in the zone often have slightest resources. Ordinary extended families sustaining in such heat, with little chance to earn income have been faced with unearthly challenges. But a new category breaking gadget came about that more than brings hope: <i>ChotuKool </i>(‘the little cool’). A very portable 45 litre capacity refrigerator, weighing less than a new born baby, designed with only 20 working components, running on 12-volts DC or battery, remaining cool for hours without any charge. The cleaver bit of fridge is the design has replaced the customary compressor with a turbo-fan not unlike the ones found in the back of a PC interfaced with some ingenious heat exchanger channelling.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The whole notion is about addressing basic refrigeration demands of rural families. In fact, about 80 percent of Indian households lack basic appliances such as fans, aircondoning, even lighting in many cases. Yet in the face of this dreadful reality, Mumbai established Godrej and Boyce (G&B) - of mechanical typewriter fame - decided to reinvigorate growth in its honoured household appliance markets. Co-designed with rural villagers, G&B began to imagine living in a home without a fridge. A clear problem is that electricity is either unavailable or unreliable in many rural parts. Then there is the fact that 100-million Indian <i>extended</i> families live on under $2,000 a year that can ill afford any such domestic appliance. But a problems can mean opportunity!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what G&B did is go on innovation safaris using the <i>jobs-to-be-done </i>methodology hunting for ideas around rural India. They observed the lives and routines of far-flung villagers. They worked with Harvard Professor Clayton <i>‘Disruptor’</i> Christiansen and his consulting firm <i>Innosight.</i> They observed how bucolic consumers acquired, prep, cook and stored provisions. People needed an affordable way to keep milk, vegetables and leftovers cool. And this in a country where – according to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development – a third of all food is lost to spoilage. Then, in a blinding flash of the inobvious the <i>ChotuKool</i> concept was born, creating a new product category, at frugal price tag of $70. Inspiring news of hope and access to new possibilities!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Poverty, of course, has many colours, many extremes, and many circumstances. But <i>the shear masses of people living in makeshift townships the world over </i>is one like no other. Unlike a tsunami crisis, fleeting famine, and even major epidemical contagion, it is ultra-long term and you are stuck there. UN figures revile the 2 billion people live in squatter communes. Try to imagine it! Visualise (and smell) what it would be like to live among millions of people in mock constructions, no better than the construction and technology that you use to make your children’s Tree House. Again, no running water, no electricity, and equally no sanitation and access to what we in the west take for granted even as we shop on busy study afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Imagine you are in one of the squatter cites, and just outside your window (if you have one) is a great mound of human <span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252);">faeces</span>, piled 20 foot high, with excrement poring and flowing down a stream of stinking acrid urine. Welcome to <i>Kieran</i>, a Kenyan slum city not unlike the 100 thousand of these place around the world. Well like yourself, your Kieran neighbours have no choice but to defecate in bags, then turn them into a flying toilet over a fence onto an ever-mounting mass. Picture the situation? A heaving, breathing pathogen-lab right outside your home, raising the probability of outbreak of lethal epidemic diseases such as cholera!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Precisely, that breathtaking nightmare is a reality for ~2.6 billion people whom have little or no access to modern toilets; 70 percent live in without proper sanitation. Lack of sanitation causes environmental pollution, social problems, unsafe surroundings and substantially more potential for epidemics. Indeed, one child dies every 15 seconds as a result of consuming water polluted with human excreta…. So?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let us turn the tables and imagine something that could make positive of all this. That living mound of waste is in fact mineral rich, and high nitrogen in content. What about using all that muck to grow a garden? In fact, why not multiple beautiful gardens throughout this sprawling provisional metropolis? In fact, let us get practical. These people live more than frugal lives. So what about micro agrifarms outside the doorstep. In fact, with a robust GM crops, we just might well be able to yield something like a fair percent of local produce needs? So what game changing <i>GigaInnovation </i>could we think up to do just that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enter <i>PeePoo</i> <span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252);">a personal, single-use, self-sanitising, fully biodegradable toilet <i>bag</i> that prevents faeces from contaminating the immediate area and surrounding ecosystem. </span>Inventor <i>Anders Wilhelmson </i>says<b> </b><span style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252);">after use, PeePoo turns faeces into fertiliser v</span>ia the urea coating on the inside of the bag. Once it is filled and buried, enzymes in faeces naturally breakdown the urea into ammonia and carbonate. This raises the pH level in the bag, killing any pathogens. Once the urea decontaminates the waste, the bag biodegrades, and the remaining ammonia fertilisers the soil…Bingo! You have got your starter kit for you micro farm. Most importantly, because these problems affect the poorest 40 percent of the world population, the toilet bag is cheap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0Rdkc1T3lw/VXWmLJgvPLI/AAAAAAAAD4k/DxGiLrYIfCs/s1600/gaming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0b5394; float: right; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0Rdkc1T3lw/VXWmLJgvPLI/AAAAAAAAD4k/DxGiLrYIfCs/s200/gaming.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">'Improving learning performance'</span> </i>across the board, from infants entering pre-school right out to retirees engaged in further and higher learning, is a Holy Grail for educationists.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>And there is a growing stack of evidence that supports that gaming platforms, in its many guises, substantially assisting in this goal. Gaming offers no panacea, but it is having a gross positive impact on learning.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gaming, as applied to learning, is not simply sitting a student in front of Donkey Kong and then measuring the student’s net gain in academic performance. There is some quite profound at work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Breaking down the gross positive gains, however, is a bit more tricky. While students may achieve higher overall examination scores as an objective measure, measuring student performance improvement in terms of enabling and learning skills and abilities, is altogether different challenge. These are universal life skills such as general problem solving, critical thinking, creative thinking, ideation, processing, et al (such fluid thinking skills are at a premium today).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The problem is that conventional formal examinations do not measure such enabling skills. But gaming can!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As a point of interest, <i>gaming</i> markets have grown to bigger than both the movie and music industries. And not being a gaming aficionado, that surprises me, considering the modern gaming industry is only around 40 years old. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a wider context, gaming is a twenty-first-century way of leading, thinking, learning, communicating, and even selling and prototyping (as I will elaborate on later), and of working together to accomplish real change and improvement across and range social and commercial issues. The statistics are mind boggling. 180 million active gamers in the USA playing on average 13 hours per week. The great challenge is to integrate games more closely into everyday worlds, and to embrace them as a platform for collaborating on our most important planetary efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>‘Steve Jobs famously stated tha</i><i>t “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Educators have been working under a similar assumption that “students don’t know what they need so it needs to be planned out for them.” </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>T</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16pt;">he key difference in these two statements is that Steve Jobs created products that lived or died based on market demand, and consequently, many of his products failed. Market demand in education is vastly different because the customers (students), have very few options, and future employers, the ultimate consumer of an educational system’s output, are only tangentially involved in the whole process. So let’s consider to a more consumer-driven educational marketplace. If a student had the ability, as in a grocery store, to walk down an aisle and pick and choose the “products” they wanted to learn, how different would that be from our educational systems today? To ask this another way, if every course lived or died based on its ability to build an audience, an actual consumer-driven following, what courses would still exist and which ones would disappear. More importantly, what would classes look like and would we even have classrooms, schools, and teachers? In the fluid learning environment emerging around us, the whims of a marketplace will be as fickle as in today’s retail stores’</i></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GmFw3VaT87s/VXWmgz07KSI/AAAAAAAAD4s/ohO3LIufJOs/s1600/gaming%2Bmechanics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0b5394; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GmFw3VaT87s/VXWmgz07KSI/AAAAAAAAD4s/ohO3LIufJOs/s200/gaming%2Bmechanics.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Reward. </i>One of the kernels of compulsive gambling is anticipation of reward. In fact, the worst thing that youths can experience in early life is run of luck at the slot machine or dog track. It imprints in their mind for a long time to come. The <i>reward-dopamine</i> cycle is route number one to dependence for over eating, watching soaps, sex, violence, politics and gambling. In the case of education, youngsters do not get the kind of feedback in terms of reward in the volume and depth necessary for them to be a compulsive learner. Giving a gold star for an essay and pinning in teacher’s wall only goes so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Learning rewards need a bit of inventive thinking. For a start, smart kid will outperform the not so smart over all. And that can lead to a green eye and a questionable ethic. But rewards do not have to be that big and they can be class (team) based.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first step is figuring out what the would-be pupil, or indeed whole class, likes best. Day trips out (theatre, theme park, cinema, zoo, museum, waxworks, laser tag, football/hockey match? Strawberries, chocolate, ice-cream? Titles, craving infatuation dependence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An exciting and potent branch of the science of game theory is<i>Gaming Psychology. </i>Which explains the mechanics and dynamics of not only winning, but motivating in a way that makes the customer, comeback for more again and again, learn more quickly and independently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is lot of terminology in world of online virtual learning and associated platforms. And it is the same for the videogame world as well. For a start,<i>gamification</i> and <i>gaming</i> are two different things. <i>Gamification</i> is the act of applying rules of thumb, often called <i>‘gaming mechanics,’</i> to make a videogame or online course more effective. And <i>gaming</i>is the link between playing and games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Tom Chatfield's TED talk on<b> </b></i><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_chatfield_7_ways_games_reward_the_brain.html" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain"><span class="vcard"><b><i>7 Ways Games Reward the Brain</i></b></span></a><b><i>.</i></b>With gamification, these possibility spaces have been expanded beyond just games into other areas like marketing, education, the workplace, social media, philanthropy, and the Web, just to name a few. <span class="instapaperbody"><i>BioNetwork </i>provides workforce training and education to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and life science industries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Immersive applications encourage imagination, support exploration, give risk-free environment, help our understanding, engage our interest, make inaccessible accessible, build relationships, bridge to physical world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gamification, as applied to online learning is the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications. However, it must be made clear that <i>Gamification</i> is not about turning you course matter into addictive video game. The outcome should be focussed on proficient and competent understanding of the subject matter, designed and motivated through gaming mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game mechanics are the construct of rules that encourage users to explore, learn, and push the boundaries of their aptitude through the use of clinical feedback mechanisms. The primary reason for applying gamification to online learning is to engage learners. Much of what is used to build engagement in video (and non-video) games can also be applied to other interactive material, such as online learning. But what mechanics need to be considered and integrated most?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Engagement mechanics is the effective pursuit of attention or increased effort of a learner. Basically, engagement occurs when a brain is rewarded, and for something to be perceived as rewarding it must evoke positive emotions. The are two prime mechanisms to the sensitivity of something being rewarding:<i>desire</i> and<i> affinity.</i> Without these motives, the learner will not find something rewarding. Neuroscientists says that desire and affinity occur in two separate parts of the brain. For the purposes of developing engaging online learning courses, the gaming mechanics need to reward the learner's brains by compelling motives to <i>want</i> the knowledge or skill, and develop course content they <i>enjoy.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To do this, contents designers must know and understand the audience, not just the subject matter. This is partly a demographical issue, by studying the popular culture, brands, interests, and the general media the target audience get pleasure from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Deploying motivation. </i>Controlled and autonomous motivation achieve different outcomes. Extrinsic motivation leads to a discrete outcome, such obtaining a life goal. Intrinsic motivation leads to activities that pleasurable, exciting, or interesting, such a hobby or recreational sport.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Motivation plays an important role during educational experiences. Even though a person may be motivated to engage in an activity leading to a separable outcome, they do have a degree of choice and control if they have internalized their motivation. As educators we have an opportunity to assist with this internalization in the way we design and deliver learning experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Contexts that satisfy these basic needs will support people's actions, resulting in more optimal motivation and positive outcomes. So, if we can use strategies to support autonomy, competence and relatedness needs we can assist learners to internalise their motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US">DopaLearning.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> These are what I call <i>DopaProducts</i>; or here,<i>DopaLearning.</i> Products and games that you cannot but help to purchase, even if you do not need them or rarely use them.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">DopaProduct<i> </i></span>are any pursuit, interest, object or conduct that develops into a main focal point in an individual's life routines, work and leisure pursuit, often to the exclusion of other behaviours. In fact, people - all people - may become addicted or compulsively obsessed with even simple things (habits are more easy to form, yet harder to break).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some studies imply that there are comparisons between <i>physical</i>addiction to different substances such as alcohol or cocaine; and<i>psychological</i> dependence to activities such as gambling, work, running, shopping or eating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All addictions, whether behavioural or substance base <i>dopamine</i> in the brain. A neurochemical that causes an octane-like <i>high</i>. However, over time, the body begins to develop a tolerance to increased levels of dopamine. In turn, the person then must increase the behaviour such as watching more TV Soaps, Facebook shares, reading violent novels, ultra-cleaning the home, etc, to avoid withdrawal symptoms and achieve a high once more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This in the realms of clinical bio-psychology is known as the <i>distraction-</i><i></i><i>dopamine</i> cycle. This behaviour (all behaviour is ultimately dictated by chemical activity in the brain) can promote a wide range of <i>outcomes</i> from food binging, acute gambling, violence, sexual addiction; all creating a lasting buzz and/or relived tensions. The key point is that the excessive activity (food binging) is not connected to the purpose it appears to be directed to (satisfying hunger). Other reasons are often present, but difficult to detect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Examples could be a person who is afraid of bonding with a partner choosing to zone out with the TV, or a person who has never had enough love filling up on a kilo of ice-cream. Hence, addictive behaviours are often the consequence of invisible factors, but none the less are fulfilled or avoided by choosing an alternative outcome like spending all night in the pub or clearing out the cupboards every-single weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what does this have to do with commerce, or here, turning online gaming into GigaMarkets? Quite a lot in fact. We all have a passion. There is always something in our lives that we are fervent, zealous, and sometimes fanatical about. A hobby, a craft, a game, a collection, a sport, a TV games show (quick switch on the TV; American X-Factor’s on!). And that is your <i>distraction-</i><i></i><i>dopamine</i> cycle firing off. And the more you are caught up, the greater the cycle, the more reinforced those positive feelings are by seeking out more and more. And now you know way passion fed products like Harry Potter books and films or 40+ years of Star Trek are so successful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that is where a GigaMarket signal resides! Your passion is not a convergent focus, because the longer you seek it, the more you want it, the more you crave, the more the scope for innovation! The goal then, is to seek <i>signals</i> that highlight or embed<i>distraction-dopamine</i> cycles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The learning whole.</i> Student learns faster and better if presented with a holistic picture of the entire material right from the beginning. Thus, a student knows why they are learning the material before they begin to learn it. Small units does serve the purpose of easy digestive learning, but also leads to a fragmentation of the final outcome. It is not enough to pack each chunk with synthesizers, cognitive strategies, activities, discussion forums, and assessments. The learner should have the opportunity to realize, recognize, and comprehend why they are learning the content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The student is the principal audience and receiver of the learning process. Online learning must be learner-centric and not teacher-centric. The focus of online learning needs to shift to a macro-holistic process. Put the learner in the center of the learning process. Designing instruction is about analyzing and addressing the needs of the learner in a macro fashion. A learner will always need to know the path and goal of instructions. Why is he studying this particular concept? For instance, take a simple example of crossing a stream by hopping from one stone to the other. You know where you are going. Similarly a learner needs to know the where, why, and how of instruction. And the macro-oriention answers this explicitly. It places the learner within the learning context taking the concentration away from hierarchical instructional events<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Setting Levels and Goals.</i> Video games are often structured so that players have a range of levels and goals. First is the long-term goal of completing the contest. This is important, as it depicts the overall themes, narratives and big concept challenge. Next, are the medium-term goals of concluding each level. And lastly, the short-term goals of completing the missions in a specific levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each level of a game should get harder; <span class="instapaperbody">a linear condition with each level becoming more complex. </span>Hence in online learning, each <span class="separator"><b>l</b></span><span class="instapaperbody">evel drives forward learning boundaries. However, if the would-be student demonstrates high performance proficiency, the next step level should offer a choice. A condition where the learning-player could choose whether to play a harder level, an easier level, or the same difficulty level.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="instapaperbody"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="instapaperbody"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Adaptive levelling system determine the level of increasing challenge to the player based on their performance on the previous levels. Good results are rarely achieved on the first round, but when they apply the algorithm to the earlier levels they get impressive results. That says a lot for cognitive tutoring, the ability to have a very customized experience by giving a challenge that is appropriate for the level of proficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This allows players in games to learn and practice skills, prior to having to demonstrate mastery of those skills in the most challenging parts of the game (room to fail, room to play, room to learn in trial and error).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Minimizing cognitive fatigue.</i> It is also important minimize cognitive fatigue, the learning content within levels should be broken up into short, medium, and long-term goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is typical that learners must complete several modules before completing a course. To complete a module, several topics must be completed. In order to complete a topic, several objectives must be finished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obviously, each objective requires several goals to be completed. Structuring online learning this way, allows users to learn new skills incrementally, and then practice those skills before demonstrating mastery of those skills in assessment exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Growing learning competence through the learning game.</i>Essentially, as the challenge of an experience rises, the skill of the participant must also grow in direct proportion. If a user's skill exceeds the challenge of the experience, they will become bored. And, if the challenge exceeds the participant's skill, they will suffer anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An optimal user experience is illustrated in the flow channel as the squiggly line. This line demonstrates the experience described above where a user is challenged to a high degree with new experiences, and then given an opportunity to demonstrate and master the skill of that experience, before given a completely new challenge to conquer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Final test level.</i> learners are given goals that get increasingly more difficult as they approach a final level. At this level, the level of difficult should reflect a kind of final exam or test. The challenge of the test level must higher than any of the challenges in the prior levels. This need to be combo need with the opportunity to replay previous levels to master skills before the challenge ramps again. This keeps the player in the flow channel, thus engaging them in the experience. With learning, the challenge is ramped up immediately after an assessment with the introduction of new material. The learner is presented with new material, which gets increasingly more complex. They are then given a chance to master those new challenges as their skills increase, and after that they are given an assessment that demonstrates the knowledge of that material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Employ smart strokes.</i> Popular science and technology publications do this. The New Scientist, Wired, and Focus magazines induce the reader into thinking they are smart by pushing the reader’s intellect just a tad and dressing the language in techno-babble. Learning a course’s content should be the same. Especially for learning exercises. If a would-be learner is confused, lost or feels that they are thumping their head against a virtual wall, engagement will be lost. Because the contents and exercises will essentially say they are dim-witted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Learning maps.</i> Users should know precisely what they need to do next, or what options they have at any given time. Learner often take long breaks. Sometimes days or weeks. Would they know what to do when they returned? Keep apprentice informed of what to do now and next. This can be achieved by links back to essential information previously referenced or links to supplemental material that is prerequisite knowledge for the current learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Evaluation.</i> Blind tests will also put off the student. During assessment, describe why answers are correct or incorrect. Either in pop-ups or links to appropriate information. Many of the online learning course, game and tests I have viewed merely say,<i>‘Wrong. Try again.’</i> These people are not playing for fun, the yare thinking and have goals. So give them the support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="separator"><i>Enjoyment of goal pursuing in learning.</i></span><span class="separator"> </span>Quests are the goal structure in a game, the motivational storyline that keeps you going. Researchers have show that using the quest in the game helps learning outcomes and highly related to gameplay and really well received by the students. There is little increase in student motivation to learn mathematics, for example, but students spend more time playing the game and felt they had a more enjoyable experience when quests were highly aligned with the learning objectives. Put in quests that are imaginative or fantasy-based to get people into the game and moving through instead of making sure that the quest aligns with the learning objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It is about new ideas, processes, products or procedures, which will benefit the individual or
organization. Innovation is directly related to the people that work in an organization. They can provide
the competitive advantage an organization is looking for. The present research tried to find which
personality characteristics innovative people possess. This might enable organizations to focus on
certain personality traits when looking for innovative people.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The organization as a whole can become
more innovative. The personality of the people was analysed by using the five factor model, which
consists of the factors: emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and
conscientiousness. With these five factors a description of one’s personality can be given. </i></span><br />
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questionnaire was developed to collect the data among three different sample groups. In total 106
questionnaires were returned and the data was analysed. It seems that the personality factors
openness to experience and emotional stability are the most important predictors of innovative
behaviour. This means that organizations should focus on people who are open to experience and who
are emotionally stable. Personal initiative is also a necessary trait for innovation. In order to get
support for new ideas, a person needs to behave proactive and take initiative. Interesting to see is that
age has a significant effect on innovative behaviour as well. It seems that the older a person is, the
more innovative this person will behave. These findings can direct organizations more specifically in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">If you think about it, Creativity is<i> 'the' </i>fundamental phenomena, above all else! Clearly nature and its laws is where it all stems from. But here on the ground, it is people that breath the life of new things. So here's 4 personality traits to look for when looking for creative people.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">They’re curious about everything. </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mLLglT-eS6s/WLFBNvf5t6I/AAAAAAAAEPA/M4CUN3yJHtAfFPWfrZsqMSRkXMXj0N5ZQCLcB/s1600/c1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mLLglT-eS6s/WLFBNvf5t6I/AAAAAAAAEPA/M4CUN3yJHtAfFPWfrZsqMSRkXMXj0N5ZQCLcB/s200/c1.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Acutely creative people have extremely diverse range of knowledge in
multiple field and contexts. This is simply because they are very
curious and have an insatiable thirst for learning (like you). Discovering new
things is a big part of creating other fresh ideas that combine elements from
arts, history, astronomy, and why not, gastronomy; or as I call it
<i>‘Hyperinnovation.’</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Creatives easily switch off from work.</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0imnusGABxU/WLFCFf3hpzI/AAAAAAAAEPM/wyB6ilMgZFUV0aFnTrToZ_cRXgO0msJJQCLcB/s1600/relax.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0imnusGABxU/WLFCFf3hpzI/AAAAAAAAEPM/wyB6ilMgZFUV0aFnTrToZ_cRXgO0msJJQCLcB/s320/relax.png" width="312" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you are highly creative, you’ll probably have periods of doing
nothing, or at least low productive days (even weeks, and in extreme cases,
years – me!). </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Creative minds need to find time for relaxation which is why they have
developed the skill of taking their mind off from work. Big ideas usually pop
up when the brain is relaxed. Plus, time out re-fuels and re-motivates the
brain creative powers. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Creative people don’t take themselves too
seriously.</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DJW1LM4mRBo/WLFDRtaij5I/AAAAAAAAEPY/p0g3rHfhlqcLAQGVChNJSmJ4bhDlEupKACLcB/s1600/einstine.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DJW1LM4mRBo/WLFDRtaij5I/AAAAAAAAEPY/p0g3rHfhlqcLAQGVChNJSmJ4bhDlEupKACLcB/s400/einstine.png" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Imaginative bods are often quite playful, because they like and in time
learn that having fun opens-up original insight, wooden-top thinker would never
see or get. They like to have fun with their work as well as with other people
and prefer to find humour even in the direst of situations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">You know the saying, bad habits (alcohol, drugs, over eating, etc.) ruin
lives. Good patterns in life (routine exercise, healthy diet, regular relaxing
and good body of continuous learning) gives a good platform for a good
life. Highly creative people know the importance of creating something, no
matter how small, as often as they can, even daily (this is why get frustrated when
my partner locks me out of my Saturday Morning kitchen and I get that creative Chef verve).
This is how Creatives turn Imagineering into a habit. They recognize that once
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Watch this video for where Sony thinks <i><span style="color: red;">H</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">y</span><span style="color: #c27ba0;">p</span><span style="color: orange;">e</span><span style="color: #38761d;">r</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">i</span><span style="color: #a64d79;">n</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">n</span><span style="color: #741b47;">o</span><span style="color: #b45f06;">v</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">a</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">t</span><span style="color: #bf9000;">i</span><span style="color: #990000;">o</span><span style="color: #45818e;">n</span> </i>could take us by 2025</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After all, there's not merely one future in front of us, there is literally an infinite number of possibilities to choice from. All it takes is a little visioning to pick the most exciting and most valuable ones and work to make them real</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">CHILL with Cisco's
Hyperinnovation Living Labs</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wHcKVIAikl0/WLAaQFXgr7I/AAAAAAAAEOc/jT7yCo97Wo0Jsd6Ocj8l_tMIUJcF74LUwCLcB/s1600/Cisco%2BHyperinnovation%2BLabs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wHcKVIAikl0/WLAaQFXgr7I/AAAAAAAAEOc/jT7yCo97Wo0Jsd6Ocj8l_tMIUJcF74LUwCLcB/s320/Cisco%2BHyperinnovation%2BLabs.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cisco
Systems has recently been ranked number 31 in the Top 50 Most Innovative
Companies, by Boston Consulting. And personally, I’m pleased to say they are
using my model of </span><i style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hyperinnovation</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">: interconnecting
ideas, technologies, people, organisations, markets and whole industries across
boarders in multidimensional ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Innovation
is strongly associated with – amongst others – creating new gadgets, novel services,
step-change improved processes, and funky techniques that move things on. Clearly,
all kinds of innovation requires human intervention to plan, build, manage and
thrive on the chaos that comes with innovating – anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cisco
Systems Inc. call the process <i>‘Cisco
Hyperinnovation Living Labs </i>(CHILL).’ True to its name, CHILL provokes
disruption by emulsifying solutions from non-competing companies in various
industries. This involves mustering senior executives from Fortune 500
companies at undisclosed locations around the globe for 48 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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locations of these conclaves are trivial; it’s the ideas and solutions, which
are most intriguing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEhwbgUqJBs/WLAacy8brOI/AAAAAAAAEOk/-NYt08TCmLYvNMZPXyGZSo3TXF9V8q0IQCLcB/s1600/Hyperinnovation%2Bbook%2Bcover..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEhwbgUqJBs/WLAacy8brOI/AAAAAAAAEOk/-NYt08TCmLYvNMZPXyGZSo3TXF9V8q0IQCLcB/s200/Hyperinnovation%2Bbook%2Bcover..jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For example, CHILL brought together four of <a href="https://vimeo.com/143056748" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0096d5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">retail’s biggest brand titans</span></a> –
Costco, Nike, Lowe’s, and Visa. With a willingness to focus on customer needs,
learn quickly, and build on ideas, sleeves were rolled up and co-innovation
blossomed over 48 hours. These companies worked together under the single
ambition of how to remove queues from the retail experience. Ideas ensued and —
with the power of Cisco engineering, proto-typing, and technology resources to
support them — moved the needle toward real tangible solutions that could be
taken to market.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A growing number of companies are looking at the viability of airborne, autonomous taxis as a way to ease urban congestion and transportation woes, but the city of Dubai could leapfrog those with a plan to deploy a passenger-carrying drone as early as this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Uber, Airbus and others are still talking about creating test vehicles that would begin transporting cargo first, but Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency lead announced (via <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/06/08/ehang-nevada-news/#63DathpFqOqu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mashable</a>) at the World Government Summit in the city that they’re going to begin operating passenger service along predetermined routes starting in July, using the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/06/the-ehang-184-is-a-human-sized-drone-taking-off-at-ces/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ehang 184</a> autonomous quad-opener electric drone to ferry people through the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<b>Seasteading'</b> is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, outside the territory claimed by any government. Most proposed seasteads have been modified cruising vessels. Other proposed structures have included a refitted oil platform a decommissioned anti-aircraft platform, and custom-built floating islands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's coming net may be revolutionary. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Purpose built cites in the politically unclaimed territories the planet large oceans.</span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SQQtRgNqitU/WAgmHnhC4cI/AAAAAAAAEMU/ztnTuSxpL7889pG8pBQrPrriF515firFQCLcB/s1600/sea%2Bcities%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="144" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SQQtRgNqitU/WAgmHnhC4cI/AAAAAAAAEMU/ztnTuSxpL7889pG8pBQrPrriF515firFQCLcB/s320/sea%2Bcities%2B3.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One organisation (there are many) is The Seasteading Institute, who work to enable seasteading communities – floating cities – which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government. The most successful can then inspire change in governments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">around the world. A big idea indeed.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.seasteading.org/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Click here to view their site</a><br />
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<a href="http://seasteadingorg.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Floating-City-Project-Report-4_25_2014.pdf"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also see Seasteading report on flouting cities.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter, once again, has hit a hot tipping spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next year, we may see the launch of the first true quantum computers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The implications will be staggering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog aims to answer three questions:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What are their implications?</span></em></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who’s working on them?</span></em></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a lot to unpack here, so hang tight, and let's jump in!</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is Quantum Computing?</span></strong></h2>
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Leicestershire, England has just completed the <a href="http://www.greatrun.org/great-north-run" target="_blank"><span style="color: #31a1ff;">Great North Run</span></a>, the biggest half marathon in
the UK, despite being both paralyzed and 16 weeks pregnant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wearing a bionic
suit by <a href="http://rewalk.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #31a1ff;">ReWalk Robotics</span></a> and assisted by her
husband Dan, Claire reached the finish line in 5 days. The course runs for
21 km (13.1 miles) from Newcastle to South Shields.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36-year-old Claire
was paralyzed after a horse riding accident 9 years ago. Prior to the incident,
she was a professional event rider. During an event, she was thrown from
her horse breaking her neck, cracking her ribs and back, and also
punctured a lung.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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godmother granting a wish, the ReWalk exoskeleton made moving again a reality
for Claire . Equipped with motion sensors, the suit makes it possible for
users to lift their own legs. The sensors are located on the
feet, the hips, and the upper body, giving the user control over movement.
Claire </span><span style="color: #333333;">also used crutches to assist with keeping her balance.'</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">5 Things Your Kids Really Need to Master, and Continually Learn and
Develop in the Coming Era of Ubiquitous Strong Artificial Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HYpI7GrjRVw/V7i4Qq7WnlI/AAAAAAAAEK8/7ZB0Eyay7XQpzWkQyqU4TcWXvBma1RxcwCLcB/s1600/a%2Bi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HYpI7GrjRVw/V7i4Qq7WnlI/AAAAAAAAEK8/7ZB0Eyay7XQpzWkQyqU4TcWXvBma1RxcwCLcB/s200/a%2Bi.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you have young children, or an extended family of kids?
Because if you have, you and the family need to think about and act on what I
say below!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because your kid’s future will be fundamentally different
when it comes to work and the workplace, as they are going to be busier than
ever without what we call <i>work</i> today!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Work as we know it is going to
disappear, as automation is rapidly replacing jobs in the factory; and now in
the service sector (how did you book your last holiday? Go to a travel agent,
or do it via your iPhone and a Net App?). Mass production driverless cars, are
just a few years away! Next, buses, trains, taxies, and all and sundry delivery
systems become autonomous (there’s ~one-hundred thousand taxi drivers in the UK
alone! What’s next for them?).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Schools, health-care, and security
provision are about to go Botmatic! Why learn from a teacher, when you can
learn at home with AI cobot? Why go to the quack when prognosis and
prescription is carried out by an AI? And would any one mess with a Superstore
Security Robot made of Titanium, or rob a Boutique when every (every) product
has a Smart GPS Tag (in fact why would any shop need a metallic Robot? By the
time the assailant get home, Robocop is waiting at his door step, ‘Prisoner,
you have the right to remain silent, or get your Butt kicked).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK, so here’s the rub.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not all jobs will be automated
and augment with AI. As what can be automated (all repeatable processes) is
different from what should be automated (working down a mine). And that comes
down too moral values, even ethics. But in the end, most maker and service jobs
will be Robotised!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what are your kids going to do
for work, and the major reason for work in the first place: earning a liveable, even higher wage? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The jobs of the future will not
look like the jobs of the past. In fact, they will not resemble anything like
work as we know it today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They will look like play, fun,
hobbies, interests, passions, obsessions, even delusions (for many) as we know
it now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For sure, the first 3 eternals
skills/knowledge and application set will become ever more relevant. That is, Mathematics,
Language, and Science. But two more ‘need-to-understand’ bodies of know-how are
rapidly becoming an imperative: high-level software design/development, and the
core processes of innovation, enterprise, and entrepreneurial-ship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because without these five bodies
of knowledge your kids won’t have a job of any kind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Especially the new kinds
of jobs now emerging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Think of the English farmer two-hundred
years ago, <i>would he have any idea what new
jobs will come into play in 20, 30, 40 or 50 years from then?’</i> To the
farmer, the industrial revolution was nowhere in sight 200 years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now ask yourself, <i>‘what short of jobs will be around in 20,
30, 40, 50 years from today?’</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What’s different today, with
regards this question, is our technologically enabled capability to forecast
technological trends with finer and further accuracy than 200 years ago. Big
Data, the World-Wide-Web, and Cloud Databases, are tools that enable the
mapping of technological trends with reliable accuracy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can forecast many of the new
jobs in the years to come because of this capability. We know for sure that the
AI and Robot Revolution is happening now, and will carry on into the distant
future. AI will be everywhere, robots and automation will be ubiquitous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So programming and maintaining
bots and writing AI code will be a must. Most factory and service jobs will be
out the window. So innovating new kinds of jobs, businesses, whole industries
will be sacrosanct.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So maths, language and science, augmented
with <i>high-level software
design/development, </i>and the core processes of <i>innovation, enterprise, </i>and<i>
entrepreneurial-ship, </i>will be a must have skill set.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hence,<i> ‘You Incorporated/You-Brand,’</i> creating unheard of value through the invention of extraordinary new applications and custom programs for AI and Robots in new technological arenas not insight now, is how will be how our children make
a living in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The body of knowledge of combined
<i>innovation, enterprise, </i>and<i> entrepreneurial-ship</i>, is easy to reach
these days. Millions of books (try mine), websites, and conferences are
available at reasonable prices (go figure).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But consumer and high school level
programming of Robots and AI is still in its infancy. So how do we get started
on all this (see post below)?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">LEGO Mindstorms: <i>Serious Play with Toy Robots.</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Do you remember whiling away the hours playing with Lego bricks as
a child? I do! On my </span><span style="text-align: left;">10</span><sup style="text-align: left;">th</sup><span style="text-align: left;"> birthday, my mother took me to the famous </span><span style="text-align: left;">Hamleys Toy Store, Regent Street, London. Where she bought me a
huge box of Lego. To say I was hooked, is the least of it.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTCha4jAH10/V7i10gg6YZI/AAAAAAAAEKk/8sIEoFWQqSURZ97QpXVJvjdZMRjTtiZTgCLcB/s1600/mind%2Bstorm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTCha4jAH10/V7i10gg6YZI/AAAAAAAAEKk/8sIEoFWQqSURZ97QpXVJvjdZMRjTtiZTgCLcB/s320/mind%2Bstorm.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Well, things have not stood still for Lego since the early 1970s.
Lego has become intelligent! And for the aspiring Robotologist; or indeed,
budding Robotics design/industrial engineer, they would not go that far wrong by
learning the elementary ropes with a range of intelligent Lego sets called <i>‘Mindstorms.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">One thing is rock sure, that young people today – that is tots and
teens and adolescents – will be swamped in Robot technologies 10 years from now
(2025). A child going through his education; or indeed a young adult going
through college education without any engagement with and/or learning about
Robot technologies is the equivalent of not learning to write in their native language;
or indeed ignoring the universal language of mathematics. They just will not cut
it in the future of work (as I will explain later in this book).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Even for me, more than halfway through my career, I am having to
start a new engineering apprenticeship in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (and
Biotechnology and Nanotechnology).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lego Mindstorms</span><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">
is a sequence of toy kits that include hardware and software that allows the
would-be Robotist to build a vast array of customisable, programmable toy Robots
out of a combination of traditional Lego bricks and advanced Lego components.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q2dAxhynrAM/V7i15L4RpWI/AAAAAAAAEKo/jhkGHXQM84wqSM-GxTrHrek7bVub5gRLACLcB/s1600/mind%2Bstorm%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q2dAxhynrAM/V7i15L4RpWI/AAAAAAAAEKo/jhkGHXQM84wqSM-GxTrHrek7bVub5gRLACLcB/s200/mind%2Bstorm%2B2.jpg" width="173" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Beginners
can manipulate intelligent Lego-<i>brick</i> computers that command the systems;
attach sets of modular sensors and servo motors; and click together Lego parts
from the <i>Technic </i>line (such as gears,
axles, beams, and pneumatic parts), to tailor mechanically unique Robot systems.
Mindstorms, as the name suggests, is both fun and taxing to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Mindstorms
can be used to build a model of embedded systems with computer-controlled
electromechanical parts. Many types of real-world embedded systems, from programmable
vehicles; devise controllers for miniature elevators, carrousels, conveyors,
and rotary systems; to mock industrial Robots; can be put together with Mindstorms.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Mindstorms
is primarily a recreational toy. Little’ens are fascinated by it. But it is
much more than time killing amusement. It is in fact a highly addictive
learning and discovery tool. Various kits are sold and used as educational tools.
Where the academic version is called </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Lego Mindstorms for Schools</i>, and comes
with the programming software. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">For youngsters, the Lego software is fairly easy
to learn, and more than enough to get to grips with the basics. But for the
inquisitive 20/30/40+ something, the Lego software can be up-graded with third
party firmware and/or programming languages; including some of the most popular
ones used by professionals in the embedded systems industry. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Java</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">C</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"> for example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YslT7cyRdcc/V7i17Wx2v-I/AAAAAAAAEKs/7Cc4E050v9sa3M1ug0FO7feICx5pS2OuwCLcB/s1600/mind%2Bstorm%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YslT7cyRdcc/V7i17Wx2v-I/AAAAAAAAEKs/7Cc4E050v9sa3M1ug0FO7feICx5pS2OuwCLcB/s200/mind%2Bstorm%2B3.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The only difference between the educational
series, known as the <i>‘Challenge Set’,</i>
and the consumer series, known as the <i>‘Inventor
Set,’</i> is that the education set includes more touch sensors and several
more gearing options. Opening up the prospect for more adventurous Robot
projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">As I said, reading this right now, might seem that Lego Mindstorms
is a past-time toy, to occupy inquisitive young minds. But Mindstorms is the
result a LEGO and </span><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab joint
venture. To bring LEGO-based educational products to market based on
leading-edge and highly effective <i>‘constructivist’</i>
learning methodologies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Lego Mindstorms</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"> has been named after the 1980
book, <i>Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas;</i> by Seymour
Papert. Papert proposed a unique computer-based learning environment called, <i>‘Microworld.’ </i>His primary belief about
the Microworld's design is that it complements the natural knowledge building
mechanisms of children, known as a <i>constructivist</i>
approach to knowing and learning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">His
primary implication is that Microworld learning profoundly affects the <i>quality</i>
of knowledge gained. This work is one of the first large-scale attempts to
mediate educational computer-based technology with Piagetian-based theories (just
below) of learning and knowing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Papert
timing could not be better, having been at the centre of three <i>learning</i> revolutions: <i>child development psychology, artificial
intelligence, </i>and<i> computational
technologies for education. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">His
fundamental research on applied human-and-machine intelligence and cognition
has touched children around the world. For those in the know, it is difficult
to envision a school Robotics subculture without Papert. Or for that matter,
most of technology-enabled project-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">based learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Born in 1928 in Pretoria,
South Africa, eventually a philosophy student at South Africa’s University of
Witwatersrand, where he received a doctorate in mathematics in 1952. As part of
his doctoral work, Papert had spent time at the Henri Poincaré Institute at the
University of Paris. It was in Paris that he would meet the renowned Jean
Piaget; the original architect of the theory
of <i>cognitive development stage theory</i>:
a comprehensive thesis of the nature and development of human intelligence.
Piaget held that one's childhood plays a vital and active role in cognitive
development. But, in fact, it deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how
humans come gradually to acquire, construct, and use it.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Another influential chance
meet-up, came at the 1960 symposium on <i>Information
Theory,</i> London. Where Papert bumped into the marvellous Marvin Minsky (Don Professor
of AI, at MIT); whereby they both coincidentally presented papers on a similar
theorem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Later in close partnership
with Marvin Minsky, Papert became co-founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence
Lab. Further, <i>‘Perceptrons,’</i> the
groundbreaking 1970 book co-authored by Minsky and Papert, was possibly the
first look at AI to gain widespread notice beyond domain experts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Papert crafted ‘<i>Logo</i>,’ a revolutionary programming
language, the first designed expressly for use by children, at a time when
computers used to fill entire rooms and were impossibly complicated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Papert’s vision was that
children should be programming the computer <em>rather
than being programmed by it</em>. In 1970, Papert convened a symposium
at MIT called <i>‘Teaching Children Thinking;’</i>
where he laid out his case for children teaching computers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">This radical idea would float
around for nearly two decades before digital tools would become commonplace in
the classroom. And yet to this day, there is still a great gap between
paradigms: Is the machine driving the child or vice versa?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Its applications to learning
and teaching in 2015+ are no less than startling. </span><i style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Mindstorms</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;"> ranks in the top 10 education
books I have read. It describes not just how children develop intellectually,
but frames the role that educational technology plays in teaching and learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Millions of kids are now
being exposed to advanced ideas and technologies such as Robotics, Multi-agent
Modelling, Systems Dynamics, and Digital 3D Printing. The Lego company is
transforming many of these ideas into their products under the title <i>‘Mindstorms,’ </i>in honour of Papert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">From his book, </span><i style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">Mindstorms:</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">‘Many
children are held back in their learning because they have a model of learning
in which you have either “got it” or “got it wrong.” But when you program a
computer you almost never get it right the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Learning
to be a master programmer is learning to become highly skilled at isolating and
correcting bugs ... <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The
question to ask about the program is not whether it is right or wrong, but if
it is fixable. If this way of looking at intellectual products were generalized
to how the larger culture thinks about knowledge and its acquisition we might
all be less intimidated by our fears of “being wrong.'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Papert was perhaps the first
interaction designer especially concerned with digital tools and children. His
awareness that children effectively think differently than adults, and that
their cognitive evolution requires designing rich toolkits and environments
rather than force-feeding knowledge, has set the tone for decades of research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">And now, the rich form of constructivist
learning is literally being embedded in <i>Lego
Mindstorms.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060f16; font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Lego Mindstorms Robotics activities are concrete,
contextualized, and provide immediate feedback – important factors in
satisfying a student’s desire for success and creating the motivation to
continue learning. Students also learn about the Robotics technologies themselves,
which impact all modern industries, from agriculture to healthcare, banking,
manufacturing, transportation, energy, and security. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060f16; font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The <i>Introduction to
Programming</i> curriculum is just that: an overture. For many teachers – and
why it is important – it will be their first experience at instructing Robotics
and Programming. However, the Robotics Academy has plenty of free resources on
its website and regularly offers teacher courses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The
first generation of Lego Mindstorms was built around a brick known as the RCX
(Robotic Command eXplorers). It contained an 8-bit Hitachi-8/300
microcontroller, which acted as it CPU. Including 32K of RAM to store the
firmware and user programs; the brick is programmed by uploading a program from
a Windows or Mac computer to the brick's RAM via a special infrared interface. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">After
the user starts a program, an RCX-enabled Mindstorms creation can function
totally on its own, acting on internal and external stimuli according to the
programmed instructions. Also, two or several more RCX bricks can communicate
with each other through the IR interface, enabling inter-brick cooperation or
competition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">In
addition to the IR port, the system includes three sensor input ports and three
motor output ports (which can also be used to drive other electrical devices
such as lamps and so forth). An integral LCD can display the battery level, the
status of the input/output ports, which program is selected or running, and
other information.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">Version
1.0 RCX bricks feature a power adapter jack to allow continuous operation
instead of the limited operation time when using batteries. Power adapter
equipped RCX bricks are popular for stationary robotics projects (such as Robot
arms); or for controlling Lego model trains. In the latter context, the RCX
needs to be programmed with Digital Command Control (DCC) software to operate
multiple wired trains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Lego Technic</i> control centre was the
first programmable standalone Lego product, in the sense of being able to store
sequence-based programs and run them. It featured three output ports and manual
control, and it was only capable of storing linear sequences of manual input
plus timing information. It could store up to two programs at once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">There
is a broad community interest of all ages engaged in the sharing of
construction concepts and schemes,
programming methodologies, generating third-party software and hardware, and
contributing of other ideas associated with Lego Mindstorms (see video on bespoke <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0nb058AhCo"><i>Mindstorms Gam</i>e</a></span>). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The
<i>Lego Mindstorms</i> initiative has a great
website, very much organised like Wiki; harnessing the creative potential and
collaborative efforts of Lego Mindstorm contributor. Lego also supports open
innovation by encouraging open-software code for downloading; and by holding a
range of competitions and promotional events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;">The
evolution of Robots, it seems, holds no bounds. If applied intelligence and sophisticated
mechanics is being embedded in objects as humble as the <i>Lego Brick</i>, then what ends are there insight for our understating
and application of high level artificial machine intelligence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know this, surly we must come to grips with what intelligence is, how it works,
and perhaps, how we can improve upon it. And one way to begin doing that is to
understand the human mind. The most advanced form of mindstorms we know of. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><b>Ten Mental Performance Concepts that Make Champions</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Watching the Rio Olympics? As any athlete will tell you, competition is a
mental game as much as it is a physical one. </span><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Whether you can throw a discus or not, there are
mental traits of champion athletes you can learn to adopt and emulate to help
make you a champion in your own life:</span></i></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uj8YXTJpBQs/V7cjWJIOz1I/AAAAAAAAEKU/GUldo8xnjbENus9__47MCYcvu2lg2NzdQCLcB/s1600/para.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uj8YXTJpBQs/V7cjWJIOz1I/AAAAAAAAEKU/GUldo8xnjbENus9__47MCYcvu2lg2NzdQCLcB/s320/para.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions believe in the future.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> Of course, athletes have to train in the present. You can’t expect
to deadlift 500 pounds today if you only did 200 yesterday. But they keep
their eye on the prize. Many do visualization exercises where they picture
themselves winning the gold or breaking a record in minute detail. It becomes a
matter of when, not if they will achieve their goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions embrace conflict. </span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Most people look for the fastest escape route when they encounter an
obstacle or conflict, but champion athletes relish these challenges for the
opportunity to break through and improve. Many also credit friendly (and maybe
not so friendly) rivalries for pushing them to the next level. They’re not
spoiling for a fight — but they’re not backing down, either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions stay focused.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> Swimmer Michael Phelps said that he “buckled down” on training
before the Rio olympics because he wanted to go out on a high note — and he’s
certainly succeeding. Champions understand that they have to focus on the
fundamentals and make consistent, incremental improvements in order to win.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions are held accountable.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> Olympic-level athletes have so many levels of
accountability. Of course they have their public scores, but they also have
teammates, trainers and coaches to whom they are accountable every day, not
just on race day. Building your own accountability team can help you show up
with your best effort and stay focused every single day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions take risks.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> There’s no such thing as a sure thing; even Michael Phelps
and Simone Biles knew their gold medals were not guaranteed. Champions are
known for taking (calculated) risks that have the potential to propel them to
success. And when they fail, they carefully analyse what went wrong and try
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions are disciplined. </span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Elite athletes may practice the exact same stroke, technique, or routine
daily for months or even years. And yes, doing the same thing over and
over again can be boring — but they understand the importance of diligence
and hard work. The discipline to show up every day and do your best applies to
anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions are always learning.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> When an Olympic-level athlete isn’t actively training his or her
body, he or she is studying technique, reviewing footage, researching
competitors, and searching for that one bit of information that could give them
the edge. They live and breathe their goals, and that goes for their brains as
well as their bodies. If the average person dedicated themselves so totally to
a goal in this way, it would be astounding what we could accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions are coachable.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> Those who think they know everything are the most foolish of all.
Every Olympic athlete has a coach — sometimes several — and they know how to
take criticism and suggestions to improve. Imagine an athlete who thought he
knew better than any coach; how far do you think he would go? The same is true
of any profession. No one knows everything, and even the greats have mentors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions compartmentalize.</span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"> If you’ve ever watched an athlete perform incredible feats despite
whatever might be going on in his or her life, you know how important
compartmentalization is. Champions understand that a huge part of their
physical success is mental, and they have to get in the zone and focus on only
the task at hand. Divorcing what’s going on in your personal life from
your work life, for example, can lead to greater success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; padding: 0cm;">Champions dream big. </span></b><span style="font-family: "agency fb" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">How big are your dreams? Are they Olympic gold, best-in-the-world
big? Champion athletes dare to dream that they could be the best in the<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">world</span></i>. They don’t think small. If you want big things,
you have to dream them for yourself — no one else will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘Those magnificent men in their flying machines, they go
up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. They enchant all the ladies and steal all the
scenes, with their up tiddly up up and their down tiddly down down. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Up, down, flying around,</span> looping the loop and
defying the ground.</span>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, those magnificent men have
invented a new kind of flying machine: Drone 3D Printers! There
are number of efforts here, aimed at different outcomes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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College London have built autonomous ‘flying 3D printer’ drones, which could
protect people from nuclear waste. </span><span style="color: #404040;">The
drones can print ‘sticky’ foam on dangerous objects before attaching themselves
and lifting the hazard away. The engineers hope that the drones will one day be
capable of printing nests in treetops to enable them to rest and recharge
before continuing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">In a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://youtu.be/DyAvbq8o7xI"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #222222; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">video demonstration</span></a></span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">, a quadcopter (a
drone with four rotors) can be seen printing a sticky foam substance onto a
small block, before flying away. Then a Hexacopter (six rotors) takes the
quadcopter's place, landing on the sprayed object and waiting for the foam to
set. The Hexacopter flies off with the foreign object.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another potential applications could include ad-hoc construction of
first response structures in search-and-rescue scenarios, as well as
"printing structures to bridge gaps in discontinuous terrain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thomas Creedy, a student working on the project at Imperial College
London, says ‘This is an exciting first step in the lab's development of
co-operative robotic systems for building structures inspired by the natural
world.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the one outstanding application for Flying 3D Printers, is that you
will be able to rent them on a time share basis. Click on-line and off a F3DP
goes direct to your business, or home, or school, etc, for a few hours, days,
weeks, etc. Giving flexibility and near instant access to such magnificent flying machines (up tiddly up up)!</span></span><span style="color: #2d3b43; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of and forecasting the long-term technological future was nonsense in the
context of a world when tomorrow’s technology was pretty much the same typology
as yesterday’s.</span></span></div>
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incredible futures </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as a serious subject into the public mindset -- yes, A G.
Wells and George Orwell had already made their indelible classic mark. </span></span></div>
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Isaac Asimov, was different! He based his work not merely on wild imagination
and classical science; but fervent mix of revolutionary emerging science and contradictory
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1964, at the World’s Fair
in New York, Asimov was asked to predict technological life in 2014. W</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hile
many of them never saw the light of day, Asimov, who died in 1992 at the age of
72, made some stunningly accurate predictions. Here’s 10:</span></span></div>
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see as well as hear the person you telephone.</span></span></div>
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turning to the more efficient micro-organisms. Processed soya, yeast and algae
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to such an innovation.</span></span></div>
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population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will
be 350,000,000. Not all the world’s population will enjoy the gadgetry world of
the future to the full. A </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">larger</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
portion than today will be deprived and although they may be better off,
materially, than today, they will be further behind.</span></span></div>
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the point, Asimov predicted the rise of a powerful Robot industry back in the
days when owning a TV, Holidays abroad, or go </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to University, was exclusively
for the well heeled. He forecast, that Robotics would advance and scale faster
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their meaning and relevance. He put the concept of Robot and Robotics in a
rational light and context that impacts on individual humans and wider society
in large scale ways.</span></span></div>
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the great Asimov’s work in predicting the future of Robotic, lie in the famous </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘Three Laws of Robotics.’</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A ‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zeroth’</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> law was later added (Law zero
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a human (or humanity), or, through inaction, allow a human (or humanity) to
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given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with a higher
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its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with a higher order
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</span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Law Zero:</span></span></i><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A robot may not injure
a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm,
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when he put the first three laws together back in the 1940s – saw Robots as
mechanical machines that might evolve to a point where they become </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">automaton machines that automate work freely
under their own control and power,’ </span></i><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that aid
mankind and therefore would need a set of laws to govern their actions when
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Because Robots might evolve not just higher skills and capabilities, but their
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Interesting!!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not strictly about innovation, however, the original painting is valued as one of the highest in the world; and seen as an innovative work of art!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took the photo on my Hols last week, in the Hotel grounds of where I stayed. It resembles 'The Scream,' by Edvard Munch. Wonder why it has not been noted before? To art critics and art collectors, it may be of interest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The tree is on one of the Greek Islands. Might make for interesting media interest at least.</span></div>
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CBC News reports that a, </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>'Canadian inventor tests new prototype of record-setting Hoverboard.'</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, the herd following media fail to see the future potential here (see link below). Flying Drones are mentioned in the press daily. But this really is only the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Drone related technology is racing ahead in R&D labs in terms of Price-Performance improvement at an exponential rate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Notwithstanding CAA/FAA approval, it wont be long before we see people flying to work/school/shopping on specially designed Drone-like machines. It is inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Any entrepreneurs interested here? The market will be Giga-<em>$</em>!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montrealer-sets-world-record-for-farthest-flight-by-hoverboard-1.3085052"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click here to see CBC News article</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought Luke Skywalker was the hero of the Star Wars franchise, but as I got a little older I started thinking maybe Darth Vader just got a bad rap. He’s a total bad ass with the Force, a Sith Lord and he’s part robot — which is why Devon Works partnered with Star Wars to create the new limited-edition Darth Vader wristwatch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There's going to be a lot of Star Wars associated product coming out over the coming months. You can only guess why. <em>'My The Force Be With You.'</em></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amplification of Learning Productivity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="bqquotelink1"><i><span style="color: #333333;">‘</span></i></span><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/confucius136802.html" title="view quote"><span class="bqquotelink1"><i><span style="color: black;">I hear and I forget. I
see and I remember. I do and I understand.</span></i></span></a><span class="bqquotelink1"><i><span style="color: #333333;">’</span></i></span></span><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/confucius136802.html" title="view quote"><span style="color: black;">Confucius</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MwAAgqfI7C4/VbFXM1EPjMI/AAAAAAAAEH4/CXBOpBdPciw/s1600/confusion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MwAAgqfI7C4/VbFXM1EPjMI/AAAAAAAAEH4/CXBOpBdPciw/s200/confusion.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Continuous fluid learning is now an
economic imperative in the context of today’s supra-accelerating technological
innovation</i></b><i>,</i><span class="Heading1Char"><i><span lang="EN-US"> and the </span></i></span><strong><i>ensuing exponential
</i></strong><b><i>increase in related data and know-how.</i></b> Economies that refuse to
accept this reality, are doomed to fiscal and social plight. To compete, let
alone get ahead, nations-states must enable
faster, smarter, state-of-art human capital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
is one of the biggest economic deals today, because the education paradigms and
models that have hardly changed for millennia, now thwarts economic progress. Go
back to ancient Greece and you would witness students sitting in classes,
facing a backboard, instructed by teachers and assisted by tutors. Go to any modern school today, and
you would see a similar model. A model that has moved on little more than a shackled 19<sup>th</sup> century factory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
now go out of the classroom and you will find that learning is global. The <i>pace</i> hustled, social, custom, and often
esoteric. The <i>content</i> ever novel,
surprising, discontinuous, disruptive and multidimensional. <i>Application</i> half-life decaying faster, recoiling
earlier. <i>Productivity</i> intense, augmented,
smart and real-time. The <i>focus</i> futures,
opportunities and possibilities. And the <i>activity</i>
itself fun, intriguing, curious and absorbing. And all this outside the
classroom. What on earth is going on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
adolescents and not so young adults are not engaged in learning science based futures
orientated skills, and acquiring knowledge that enables them to open the door
and build and earn a living in the future; large numbers are going to continue
be dead in the water! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I write, United Nation’s International
Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that close to 75 million 15 to 24 year-olds
(12.6 percent) around the world are <i>Not in Education, Employment</i> <i>or Training </i>(NEET).<i> </i>High youth unemployment is one of the principal
long-term problems threatening stable societies around the planet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only, this situation may be worse. Because these NEET numbers are not
only estimated as percentages of people of working age that are able to work
and not in education; but also do not include people carrying out any kind of subsistence
work (an hour a day delivering newspapers in a Kentish town; sweeping a cow shed
in Kansas; or scavenging and reselling from landfill sites in Kenya).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
the coming years, the ILO annual report warns that the world's advanced
economies will suffer a lost decade of jobs growth, with more people unemployed
for longer. The World of Work predicts that employment rates in advanced
economies will not return to pre-crisis (c.2008) levels until after 2017, 10
years after the start of the global financial meltdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To
add to this, a kind of high frequency cyclic unemployment-reemployment pattern is
causing a longer-term difficulty with people dropping out and in, and then out of
work again. This has adverse consequences on opportunities to advance in a good
job or career, and improve standards of living. For elders, the idea of
obtaining a mortgage to buy a home may be seen as a risk; for the younger home
buyer, naivety about the long-term repayment of a mortgage and housing bubbles
could lead them into debt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gets grimmer. In the UK, 9 percent of the 230,000 graduates
from 2011-12 are unemployed. Coupled to almost 10 thousand graduates underemployed
in elementary occupations, including roles such as office junior, hospital
porter, waiter and shelf-stacker. All
that academic effort to little avail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
luminously highlights that unemployment and underemployment is a devastating
phenomena in the lives of graduates, and a definite indicators that incumbent employers
demand a different employment dynamic. But more, emerging innovative firms
require skills that are just not there in sufficient numbers. Again, innovation
requires new roles, thus new skills.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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