Sunday, March 28, 2010
Education
Doesn't it seem obvious that any class that needs computers should just let students bring their own? It's not clear why they even need to be in the room to me. They could all just watch a lecture video and sign on to a chat room to have the class discussion. Wouldn't this save lots of real estate and energy?
It's just a matter of time before we all quit visiting in RL 3D space and have nice media rooms for doing this online in our houses instead.
Doesn't it seem obvious that any class that needs computers should just let students bring their own? It's not clear why they even need to be in the room to me. They could all just watch a lecture video and sign on to a chat room to have the class discussion. Wouldn't this save lots of real estate and energy?
It's just a matter of time before we all quit visiting in RL 3D space and have nice media rooms for doing this online in our houses instead.
Labels: education
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Social Fad?
I noticed this trend when my youngest child was in grade school. It all seemed silly to me and I let him be "free range". Lots of other mothers were dragging their kids around to activities all day long. I would have hated that, so I just wouldn't buy into it. My daughter apparently holds it against me that I was not doing this 35 years ago with her - when no one was. I think it is mostly female social competition that is really being exploited as a consumer trend. It is also part of the mythology being pushed that mothers have a huge influence on how their children turn out - part of "blank slate" psychology and the push to get women back in the home by conservatives.
We'll see how these spoiled and pushed children all turn out, won't we?
I noticed this trend when my youngest child was in grade school. It all seemed silly to me and I let him be "free range". Lots of other mothers were dragging their kids around to activities all day long. I would have hated that, so I just wouldn't buy into it. My daughter apparently holds it against me that I was not doing this 35 years ago with her - when no one was. I think it is mostly female social competition that is really being exploited as a consumer trend. It is also part of the mythology being pushed that mothers have a huge influence on how their children turn out - part of "blank slate" psychology and the push to get women back in the home by conservatives.
We'll see how these spoiled and pushed children all turn out, won't we?
New Puritanism
A prediction: We will enter a new era of Puritanism. All that sex in the media will go away.
This is because cognitive science is finding out that porn and fantasies screw up your sex life big time. The idea that these things seriously affect performance and the pleasure you get out of it are bound to filter down to the masses. Not only that, but the fixes are pretty simple - stop doing it and you will go back to normal in months if not weeks. Maybe all those veils are erotic?
A prediction: We will enter a new era of Puritanism. All that sex in the media will go away.
This is because cognitive science is finding out that porn and fantasies screw up your sex life big time. The idea that these things seriously affect performance and the pleasure you get out of it are bound to filter down to the masses. Not only that, but the fixes are pretty simple - stop doing it and you will go back to normal in months if not weeks. Maybe all those veils are erotic?
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