columnist to Wired magazine,
and author of one of my favorite recent books:
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future Kindle Edition by Joi Ito
The conclusion to this TED Talk:
I'm a three-time college dropout, so learning over education is very near and dear to my heart, but to me, education is what people do to you and learning is what you do to yourself.
10:15 (Applause)
10:19 And it feels like, and I'm biased, it feels like they're trying to make you memorize the whole encyclopedia before they let you go out and play, and to me, I've got Wikipedia on my cell phone, and it feels like they assume you're going to be on top of some mountain all by yourself with a number 2 pencil trying to figure out what to do when in fact you're always going to be connected, you're always going to have friends, and you can pull Wikipedia up whenever you need it, and what you need to learn is how to learn. In the case of Safecast, a bunch of amateurs when we started three years ago, I would argue that we probably as a group know more than any other organization about how to collect data and publish data and do citizen science.
11:02 Compass over maps. So this one, the idea is that the cost of writing a plan or mapping something is getting so expensive and it's not very accurate or useful. So in the Safecast story, we knew we needed to collect data, we knew we wanted to publish the data, and instead of trying to come up with the exact plan, we first said, oh, let's get Geiger counters. Oh, they've run out. Let's build them. There aren't enough sensors. Okay, then we can make a mobile Geiger counter. We can drive around. We can get volunteers. We don't have enough money. Let's Kickstarter it. We could not have planned this whole thing, but by having a very strong compass, we eventually got to where we were going, and to me it's very similar to agile software development, but this idea of compasses is very important.
11:45 So I think the good news is that even though the world is extremely complex, what you need to do is very simple. I think it's about stopping this notion that you need to plan everything, you need to stock everything, and you need to be so prepared, and focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware, and super present.
12:08 So I don't like the word "futurist." I think we should be now-ists, like we are right now.
Excellent article! #mustread @Joi @medialab #whiplash #learningovereducation #resilienceoverstrength #pulloverpush #riskoversafety #systemsoverobjects #compassovermaps #practiceovertheory #disobedienceovercompliance #emergenceoverauthority https://t.co/1c1zay4uS6 pic.twitter.com/bqiEVvFXBH— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) March 27, 2018
Watch “@Joi Ito’s 9 Principles of the @medialab” on #Vimeo at MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference https://t.co/uJeSS1fn5a pic.twitter.com/CZlbwpxMT9— Kevin James O'Brien (@KOB14) March 27, 2018
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