Erika Harrison

“On April 11, 2012 Howard Rheingold joined Mamie Rheingold in a conversation about his latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online.

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.”

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.”

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.

Robert L. Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers is most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratiodetermination, and parent-offspring conflict. Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception and intragenomic conflict.

Howard recounts some of his early work as an ‘Electronic Ethnologist’, dispels the myth of the digital native, and describes his latest experiments combining technology and pedagogy in participatory media. Drawing from master theorist of critical pedagogy, Paulo Friere, Howard speaks about scaling the banking model of education towards a new “Peeragogy”.

See more about Howard’s latest adventures at: http://www.rheingold.com/university

WELCOME TO THE CONVERSATION HUMANITY NEEDS TO HAVE.

This is a conversation about what we can learn from the basic pattern of all living systems. It seems that this pattern offers important clues about the future of humanity.

Start with the slideshow to the right to get the context for the conversation.
And then jump into whichever topic you’re most passionate about.

Feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or offers of help! :-)
May the conversation be full of life.
- Michelle Holliday

This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture’s conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor

Gideon Rosenblatt explores how companies can be good for the soul — for customers, employees, and for keeping the bottom line aligned with the greater good.

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