Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why this Matters and What We Can Do About It

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Overview

In this absorbing new book, Watson argues that despite the advances of the digital age, it has also robbed us of some of our best ideas; to regain them, he advocates for the benefits of boredom and going solo, among other techniques. Future Minds illustrates how to maximize the potential of digital technology and minimize its greatest downside, addressing the future of thinking and how we can ensure that we unleash the extraordinary potential of the human mind.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781857885491
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Publication date: 11/16/2010
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 857,132
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Overture: Screen Culture 1

Part 1 How The Digital Era Is Changing Our Minds 9

1 The Rise of the Screenager 11

10 ways screenagers are thinking differently 12

They want it and they want it now 12

Connectivity addiction 16

Multitasking mayhem 20

The screenage brain 21

Are IQ tests making kids stupid? 25

2 Pre-Teens: An Apple for Every Teacher 28

Not enough thinking inside the sand box 30

A cut-and-paste education 34

Why books still matter 36

We need more childlike thinking 39

Dare to dream 42

10 ways our education system could stimulate young minds 44

Part 2 Why This Matters 45

3 Thinking About Thinking 47

10ways our minds are different to our machines 49

Computers are stupid 50

A good idea? 52

Thinking ahead 53

Do we own our own thinking? 56

Out of sight but(perhaps)not out of mind 60

4 The Sex Life of Ideas 63

Where do ideas come from, daddy? 63

Mental impasses and gridlocks 66

Being unconventional 68

Quantity is quality 69

Two brains are better than one 71

Why clever people make dumb mistakes 74

Why we need to take our ideas to bed 77

Daydream believer 79

Music on the brain 80

Distributed intelligence 82

Celebrate serendipity 84

10 ways to breed ideas 87

5 Thinking Spaces 88

Where do people do their deepest thinking? 89

10 of my favorite ways to create deep thinking spaces 97

Why we don'think at work 98

Natural thinking spaces 99

An innocent question 100

Gardening as a metaphor for business 102

Deliberately designed work spaces 104

I think therefore iPod 109

Cathedrals for ideas 111

Organized chaos 114

Paperless offices 117

You don't need to work here to work here 119

Telepresence and other warped ideas 120

The business of busyness 122

Domestic thinking spaces 124

Third places 126

Change your routine 128

10 ways in which objects and environments deepen our thinking 130

Part 3 What We Can Do About It 131

6 How to Clear a Blocked Brain 133

Create time and space 134

Become intellectually promiscuous 138

Keep an ideas diary 140

Retain an open mind 141

Use the bathroom 145

Be patient 147

The benefits of boredom 148

Lose your inhibitions 152

Embrace failure 153

Share the problem 155

Don't go to work 158

7 Future Minds 160

Control-Alt-Delete 160

Reclaiming the time and space to think 163

Not so easy 165

From small beginnings 167

A Taste of Future Minds: 10 Predictions 170

Notes 173

Bibliography 183

A few interesting websites 195

The soundtrack to the book 197

Acknowledgments 199

Index 200

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  • Posted May 31, 2011

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    Insightful guide to digital culture's impact on the brain and human society

    Author and scenario planning consultant Richard Watson is clearly torn. One minute, he issues warnings about the negative effects of digital technologies on the brain and human society and discusses his fears that people pay insufficient attention to the possible consequences of these effects. The next minute, Watson is positively giddy and excited by the future potential of that same technology. The possibility of controlling machines with your mind, or improving your mental function by popping a pill, sounds like life in a science fiction utopia. But every utopia carries the possibility that it might turn into a dystopia that traps the human spirit: That's Watson primary concern and the insight he offers his readers. getAbstract recommends this book to anyone interested in futurism, cyberculture, digital technology or the ethics of human society.

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