“I don’t think we think unless it is about me.” – Kurt Cobain More than twenty years ago I wrote my first few lines of computer code using a language called BASIC. At university I studied Computer Science. After few years working in the IT industry, I did not enjoy working began exploring potential common…
Super Artificial Intelligence agent thinks it’s a real person Dateline: 7 January 2019 You may recall the movie ‘Her’ where the lead character falls hopelessly in love with his virtual girlfriend Samantha. She returns his love, even though she’s really his smartphone operating system. Perhaps you remember the incident in 2013, when a telemarketing agent…
Louise van Rhyn is the founder of Symphonia, a group of organisations dedicated to sustainable transformation in people, teams, companies, organisations, and communities worldwide. Through Symphonia, Louise works to mobilise citizens to become actively involved in addressing the education crisis facing South Africa. In this deeply personal and moving talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Louise talks…
– For teachers who would like to take it to the next level. From Silvana, with love. – Perhaps you have, at some point, experienced the frustrating feeling that, no matter how sophisticated your methods are, no matter how great your enthusiasm in teaching, no matter what last-generation technology you use in the classroom, there…
This little telephone tip has a sweet subliminal effect on the person you’re talking to—or at least wards off a sour one. Even after you’ve both said good-bye, let the other person hang up first. Why? Because people don’t like someone to “hang up on them.” And when they hear your click, it gives them…