In 1962 Rachel Carson told a tale where industries dumped so much waste into our ecosystem that the springs weaving through our heartlands fell silent. No crickets chirped, no birds sang, and the harvest never came. She sounded the alarm that humanity had unbalanced nature & we were on a road to ruin.
What if we are standing at the crossroads of a new silent spring driven by technologies that create industrial scale cognitive waste? Is strip mining our curiosity, creativity & executive function killing off our capacity to cope with the today’s complex challenges? Are design patterns that amplify biases part of the underlying method to this madness?
It is time to wake up and realize that human cognitive diversity matters. What can we do? Would it be possible to cherish cognition by redirecting design patterns to cancel rather than amplify biases and build rather than destroy cognitive capacity? How might machine learning help?
On Wednesday, April 24th, join human-centered design pioneer Mickey McManus to dive deeper into these important questions. In this event, Mickey will offer up his wisdom in this area and guide us through some interactive experiences to explore our own challenges and biases around attention and cognition.
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Mickey McManus is a pioneer in pervasive computing, collaborative human/machine innovation, human-centered design and education. His current research is at the intersection of automation, cognitive capacity, biases and meta-cognition. Mickey was the president, CEO, and chairman of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 with a mission of taming complexity. Currently, he is a senior advisor to BCG and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology, which serves as a field guide to the future, where devices outnumber people and computing will be freely accessible in the ambient environment.
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What if we are standing at the crossroads of a new silent spring driven by technologies that create industrial scale cognitive waste? Is strip mining our curiosity, creativity & executive function killing off our capacity to cope with the today’s complex challenges? Are design patterns that amplify biases part of the underlying method to this madness?
It is time to wake up and realize that human cognitive diversity matters. What can we do? Would it be possible to cherish cognition by redirecting design patterns to cancel rather than amplify biases and build rather than destroy cognitive capacity? How might machine learning help?
On Wednesday, April 24th, join human-centered design pioneer Mickey McManus to dive deeper into these important questions. In this event, Mickey will offer up his wisdom in this area and guide us through some interactive experiences to explore our own challenges and biases around attention and cognition.
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Mickey McManus is a pioneer in pervasive computing, collaborative human/machine innovation, human-centered design and education. His current research is at the intersection of automation, cognitive capacity, biases and meta-cognition. Mickey was the president, CEO, and chairman of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 with a mission of taming complexity. Currently, he is a senior advisor to BCG and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology, which serves as a field guide to the future, where devices outnumber people and computing will be freely accessible in the ambient environment.
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Do you love Consciousness Hacking? Want free entry to events? BECOME A MEMBER!
Membership gives us the ongoing support we need to keep Consciousness Hacking going strong! Plus, members get free admission to one CH event per month! Membership is just $10 per month, and If you buy a year of membership upfront, we'll give you two months (that's two events) for free!
Become a member here: https://www.joinit.org/o/ch
Current members: Please register using the discount code emailed to you!
Want to volunteer at this event? Email Josh at [email protected] for more info.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Photographs and video containing your image may be published by Consciousness Hacking without explicit permission.
**Refunds only available via Eventbrite 7 days or more before the event! You can sell/transfer tickets to friends at face value**
In 1962 Rachel Carson told a tale where industries dumped so much waste into our ecosystem that the springs weaving through our heartlands fell silent. No crickets chirped, no birds sang, and the harvest never came. She sounded the alarm that humanity had unbalanced nature & we were on a road to ruin.
What if we are standing at the crossroads of a new silent spring driven by technologies that create industrial scale cognitive waste? Is strip mining our curiosity, creativity & executive function killing off our capacity to cope with the today’s complex challenges? Are design patterns that amplify biases part of the underlying method to this madness?
It is time to wake up and realize that human cognitive diversity matters. What can we do? Would it be possible to cherish cognition by redirecting design patterns to cancel rather than amplify biases and build rather than destroy cognitive capacity? How might machine learning help?
On Wednesday, April 24th, join human-centered design pioneer Mickey McManus to dive deeper into these important questions. In this event, Mickey will offer up his wisdom in this area and guide us through some interactive experiences to explore our own challenges and biases around attention and cognition.
---
Mickey McManus is a pioneer in pervasive computing, collaborative human/machine innovation, human-centered design and education. His current research is at the intersection of automation, cognitive capacity, biases and meta-cognition. Mickey was the president, CEO, and chairman of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 with a mission of taming complexity. Currently, he is a senior advisor to BCG and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology, which serves as a field guide to the future, where devices outnumber people and computing will be freely accessible in the ambient environment.
---
Do you love Consciousness Hacking? Want free entry to events? BECOME A MEMBER!
Membership gives us the ongoing support we need to keep Consciousness Hacking going strong! Plus, members get free admission to one CH event per month! Membership is just $10 per month, and If you buy a year of membership upfront, we'll give you two months (that's two events) for free!
Become a member here: https://www.joinit.org/o/ch
Current members: Please register using the discount code emailed to you!
Want to volunteer at this event? Email Josh at [email protected] for more info.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Photographs and video containing your image may be published by Consciousness Hacking without explicit permission.
**Refunds only available via Eventbrite 7 days or more before the event! You can sell/transfer tickets to friends at face value**
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What if we are standing at the crossroads of a new silent spring driven by technologies that create industrial scale cognitive waste? Is strip mining our curiosity, creativity & executive function killing off our capacity to cope with the today’s complex challenges? Are design patterns that amplify biases part of the underlying method to this madness?
It is time to wake up and realize that human cognitive diversity matters. What can we do? Would it be possible to cherish cognition by redirecting design patterns to cancel rather than amplify biases and build rather than destroy cognitive capacity? How might machine learning help?
On Wednesday, April 24th, join human-centered design pioneer Mickey McManus to dive deeper into these important questions. In this event, Mickey will offer up his wisdom in this area and guide us through some interactive experiences to explore our own challenges and biases around attention and cognition.
---
Mickey McManus is a pioneer in pervasive computing, collaborative human/machine innovation, human-centered design and education. His current research is at the intersection of automation, cognitive capacity, biases and meta-cognition. Mickey was the president, CEO, and chairman of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 with a mission of taming complexity. Currently, he is a senior advisor to BCG and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology, which serves as a field guide to the future, where devices outnumber people and computing will be freely accessible in the ambient environment.
---
Do you love Consciousness Hacking? Want free entry to events? BECOME A MEMBER!
Membership gives us the ongoing support we need to keep Consciousness Hacking going strong! Plus, members get free admission to one CH event per month! Membership is just $10 per month, and If you buy a year of membership upfront, we'll give you two months (that's two events) for free!
Become a member here: https://www.joinit.org/o/ch
Current members: Please register using the discount code emailed to you!
Want to volunteer at this event? Email Josh at [email protected] for more info.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Photographs and video containing your image may be published by Consciousness Hacking without explicit permission.
**Refunds only available via Eventbrite 7 days or more before the event! You can sell/transfer tickets to friends at face value**
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