Pamala Clift: Posted on Saturday, September 03, 2011 11:39 AM
Just came from a IEEE organizational meeting talking about the timeline for the artificial intelligence field.
The presentation was by a Navi blue avatar that had the label over his head: Evangelist for Virtual Worlds.
I read some profiles and marveled at all the exceptional IQs sitting in one spot., but wait?… they are NOT sitting in one spot. They are sitting all over the world. Speaking from their perspective, .. collaborating in real time… sharing what would be impossible to share with out including the transportation industry.
I got a friendship request from a brilliant scientist that had scanned my profile or laughed at my text comments and decided that I would be good to add to her resources. She didn’t have to wait for the speaker to finish, navigate thru the crowd to meet and introduce herself. She instantly had a desire to connect.. a thought to share and Wah Laaa..
The deed was done. (No lost business cards to shuffle thorough at the end of conference trying to remember where you picked that card up and who it was from)
I am continually perplexed at the resistance to try a medium that draws such exceptional intellects together? Why is it that the immersive communicative component of a new technology is shunned like a plague.
No, no.. it is not real life!
Well then… phones are not real, nor television information.. lets just go back to digging in the ground with sticks.
So with technology doubling every 18 months… where is that going to leave everyone else…. if only a few are making the effort to keep up? It is too much to absorb for one person or several dozen… only an Artificial Intelligence could possibly have the storage capacity to sift all the information and methods of communication that will be available.
The biological resistance is there.. fighting the progress like a virus. Who is it that produced this very functional inoculation to intelligence?
Pamala Clift: Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:57 PM
Business, Education, Personal all belong in their own compartment–
Don’t cross the line?!? What the Heck?
Will business and education ever realize that life is one big whole? Businesses ignoring the social component won’t become Facebook powerhouses.
Educational institutions that refuse to acknowledge that social-computer-mediated communication is the speed of today’s society, are NOT going to be around for long. They simply are not supplying the product of students capable of dealing with the “method of business” used in today’s environment to their graduates. They are technologically phobic, using outdated internal systems and tenured professors that balk at having to learn something new.
I have watched businesses collapse because of interpersonal relationship failure. Either the HR drama of an interoffice romance, or the dismissal of the fact that employees have feelings in the corporate culture, or a divorce of the CEO, any can become the downfall.
Social CAN NOT be dismissed. It should be the focal point of every single action. You want customer social, employee social, vender social. Social IS the value! The economy sucks! You better provide a reason to love you. I need to believe I am important to you! Prove it!
LIFE is Personal! Whether it is existing at work, at school, or social, it is ALL personal. You don’t stop being human upon entering class or your workplace. You are you wherever you go.
Cisco’s: The Human Network has a beautiful slogan that touches everyone even NON-geeks. We now all belong to the human network and can visualize our contributions.
Pamala Clift: Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 8:11 PM
We live for our fantasies!
As a philosopher there is one common thread everything seems to come back to… “What is Reality?”
Reality for the Fox is certainly different than the reality for the chicken. The meeting of these two would have totally different perceptions of Right & Wrong.
The degrees in perceptional differences are almost the same with male & females.
If we want to make headway in understanding, we need to be able to see and acknowledge perceptions far different from our own and truly be able to see them as valid.
Women know they are right, but men blindly make the same assumption. (smile) Men have their feet planted squarely on the ground in the ‘here & now’ and women look afar for what this will mean in the future… so what is wrong in that? Two eyes, different perspectives makes a grand couple.
Why does there have to be a wrong or a right. Is blue better than red?
But the drama that exists because “He lied.”, or “She read more into what I said, than I said” type comments abound.
Our perspective of things is “our plot”. The story we tell ourself in our mind is happening.
It is devastating to your self image and perception when you are force-fed information that is totally opposed to your assumptions. Your plot is destroyed. Now how much pain are you going to afflict on yourself and others before you take ownership of your misperception and create for yourself a new “plot”.
So how do you start to try and understand?.. that is the question.
It is with this question that I constantly struggle as I try to assist those hurt by misperceptions from the other party… either because they over looked the facts presented or were intentionally misled.
How have you been enlightened by a totally opposite view? What brings about the epiphany of realization?
We have our head up in the clouds.. thinking OUR perception indeed has to be the correct one.
It is,… but only for you!
Please tell me your story.. of when you suddenly understood.
