by Kare Anderson | Jun 4, 2008 | Collective Intelligence, Learning
Did you enjoy sitting in a classroom, listening to the teacher in front of the room? Farvood Nivi is betting you didn’t. (I daydreamed a lot.)Nivi has a bleak view of education: “The established method of applying manufacturing assembly methods to students is not...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 9, 2008 | Book, Collective Intelligence, Collective Memory
Within seconds, an expert can look at a fake painting and know it is not the work of a master. So wrote Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. How? Because the expert’s gut feeling is “perfectly rational.” Not so, writes Robert Burton (who also lives here in...