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The distraction addiction : getting the information you need and the communication you want without enraging your family, annoying your colleagues, and destroying your soul
The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day? We have all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all? Here the author, a Stanford University technology guru, says yes. His book is packed with fascinating studies, compelling research, and crucial takeaways. Whether it is breathing while Facebook refreshes, or finding creative ways to take a few hours away from the digital crush, this book is about the ways to tune in without tuning out. - Publisher.
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Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline
Purpose - This paper seeks to be a thought experiment. If the field of futures were invented today, it asks, what would it look like? What would be its intellectual foundations? Who would it serve and influence? And how would its ideas and insights be put into practice?Design methodology approach - It reviews the literatures on experimental psychology and neuroscience to identify biases that affect people's ability to think about and act upon the future, studies of expertise that map the limits of professional judgment, and recent work on the nature of critical challenges of the twenty-first century.Findings - It argues that futurists could develop social software tools, prediction markets, and other technologies to improve the individual and collective accuracy and impact of work. Choice architectures and nudges to lengthen \"the shadow of the future\" of everyday choices made by ordinary people could also be used.Research limitations implications - The paper argues for new directions in the practice of futures, to make the field better-suited to deal with the challenges confronting an increasingly complex, chaotic, and contingent world.Practical implications - The development of tools to augment professional activity, and adoption of choice architectures and nudges as media for communicating about the future, could improve futures work and its impact, but lay the foundation for other methodological innovations.Originality value - The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion about where futures should go.
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Rest : why you get more done when you work less
\"For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles our ability to think creatively and truly recharge. In Rest, Silicon Valley consultant Alex Pang argues that we can be more successful in all areas of our lives by recognizing the importance of rest: working better does not mean working more, it means working less and resting better. Treating rest as a passive activity secondary to work undermines our chances for a rewarding and meaningful life. Whether by making space for daily naps, as Winston Churchill did during World War II; going on hours-long strolls like Charles Darwin; or spending a week alone in a cabin like Bill Gates, pursuing what Pang calls \"deliberate rest\" is the true key to fulfillment and creative success. Drawing on rigorous scientific evidence and revelatory historical examples, Rest overturns everything our culture has taught us about work and shows that only by resting better can we start living better\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Using Futures 2.0 to manage intractable futures: the case of weight loss
Purpose - Futurists have tended to take little interest in the hard work of implementing changes necessary to reach particular futures. This paper aims to argue that the field should pay more attention to these issues, and to use the challenge of weight loss to illustrate how tools can be developed to help both individuals and organizations deal with futures. It also aims to argue for the importance of mindfulness in managing long-term futures challenges.Design methodology approach - The paper describes how the author applied concepts outlined in Futures 2.0 to his own program of weight loss, and lost 50 pounds (22.7 kilograms).Findings - The paper shows how futurists could use concepts from behavioral economics and design in personal futures and futures work more generally. It also suggests that mindfulness - a concept borrowed from Buddhism and other contemplative practices - can give perspective necessary see the long-term consequences of decisions they face in the present, and the self-discipline necessary to make good choices.Research limitations implications - The paper argues that futurists should not just focus on helping clients see unexpected trends or wild cards, or thinking about the future in new ways, or reframing their underlying strategic assumptions. Complex, intractable futures subvert the best efforts of rational actors; clients are most interested in getting help on the problems they are least likely to solve.Practical implications - More value for clients can be delivered by helping them understand common roadblocks and designing the means to reach long-term future goals.Social implications - For a profession accustomed to thinking about big issues and megatrends like nanotechnology and global warming, losing weight may seem trivial and beneath its interest. But by any objective measure, in much of the developed world obesity is a substantial public health problem: it affects the lives of tens of millions of people, increases chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, and costs governments hundreds of billions of dollars. More generally, weight loss is a microcosm of the kinds of problems that can only be managed through the collective action of large numbers of people.Originality value - The paper is a contribution to the literature on personal futures, and to the ongoing discussion of the scope and methods of futures.
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إدمان التششت في العصر الرقمي : الحصول على المعلومات التي تحتاج إليها والتواصل الذي تريده، دون إغضاب أسرتك وإزعاج زملائك، وتدمير روحك
يتناول كتاب (إدمان التشتت في العصر الرقمي) كيفية بقاء الجماعات على اتصال دون إضعاف ذكائهم ودورات انتباههم وقدرتهم على عيش الواقع، حيث يقول الكاتب إن تلك الأجهزة التي يبلغ عددها 6 مليارات تجعلنا أكثر قلقا في تواصلنا مع بعضنا في النهاية، والمشكلة أننا بالكاد على دراية بهذه المشكلة، حيث يجب علينا تحديد أهدافنا واحتياجتنا قبل الولوج في العالم الرقمي.
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Use Deliberate Rest to Promote Creative Thinking
[...]they take sabbaticals to study new fields or look beyond their normal time horizons. [...]reserve mornings for focused work rather than meetings to give yourself space to tackle complicated projects that require deep focus.
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The Social Event of the Season: Solar Eclipse Expeditions and Victorian Culture
The construction of eclipse expeditions in Victorian and Edwardian Britain is examined. Eclipse expeditions were powerfully affected by the practices and culture of tourism and were further shaped by expectations surrounding the encounter of \"civilized\" and \"uncivilized\" peoples.
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موت الفلسفة
كتاب \"موت الفلسفة\" من تأليف تشارلي هوينمان وأليكس سوجنج كيم بانج، يستعرض بأسلوب نقدي ومباشر التحولات الكبرى التي طرأت على الفلسفة في العصر الحديث، متسائلا عما إذا كانت الفلسفة قد فقدت وظيفتها الأساسية في مواجهة القضايا الوجودية والأخلاقية والفكرية. يناقش المؤلفان كيف تراجعت الفلسفة أمام صعود العلوم الطبيعية، وتخصصات الاقتصاد والتكنولوجيا، وما إذا كان ذلك ناتجا عن فشل داخلي في تجديد أدواتها ومناهجها، أو بفعل تغيرات بنيوية في طبيعة المعرفة الإنسانية. كما يطرحان جدلا حول دور الفلسفة في التعليم والمجتمع، وهل لا تزال قادرة على التأثير أم أنها تحولت إلى نشاط نخبة منعزلة عن الحياة العامة. يقدم الكتاب دعوة للتفكير في مستقبل الفلسفة، وليس إعلانا حتميا عن نهايتها، بل محاولة لإعادة تحديد موقعها في زمن مضطرب.
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‘Stars should henceforth register themselves’: astrophotography at the early Lick Observatory
According to articles and books published at the end of the
nineteenth century, the
introduction of photography to astronomy was one of the most notable events
in the
discipline in a period chock full of important inventions and amazing
discoveries. Edward
Holden, director of the Lick Observatory in California, between 1887 and
1898, was
rapturous about the promise of photography: it would simplify
astronomical observation,
increase the reliability of data and produce permanent records
of the heavens untainted
by distraction, ill discipline or bias. This would happen, he argued, because
of the
mechanical virtues of the camera: It does not tire, as the eye does, and refuse to pay attention for
more than a small fraction of a
section, but it will faithfully record every ray of light that falls
upon it even for hours and finally
it will produce its automatic register [ctdot ] [that]
can be measured, if necessary, again and again. The
permanence of the records is of the greatest importance, and so
far as we know it is
complete [ctdot ] We can hand down to our successors a picture of the
sky, locked in a box.
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