video games for higher ed/ Can on the job performance be predicted by education?
What % of education can be replaced by video games? How good is education at predicting job performance? What percentage of education is replaceable by genuinely engaging video games? What parts of education cannot be replaced? I’m especially interesting in how the social aspect of games alone could affect the qualify of a learning experience. […]
NSE-IT powers Manthan, a industry and academia platform for collaboration
Manthan powered by NSE-IT The government of India on Tuesday, started a platform to drive collaboration between academia and industry to encourage solutions in the country. “The launch of Manthan, a platform that promises to augment our efforts to build and nurture industry participation in R&D, is also a testimony of our commitment to the […]
Conserving your attention for being more productive
async.twist.com The productivity tax you pay for context switching 22-28 minutes You probably won’t finish this article. In fact, I may have already lost you to another tab in your browser. Or an email from your boss. Or a ping from a coworker. Or any number of other digital distractions that have come to define […]
The role of innovation in the US
Innovation in the US – as per Sridhar Kota, UMichigan The term “innovation” denotes a process whereby a promising idea or an emerging technology is transformed into a practical solution — a marketable product, process or business model — at a scale sufficient to meet some societal need. Technological innovation is distinctly different from both […]
The Rise of the Professional inventor: engineering during the industrial revolution
https://www.hoover.org/research/engineering-professions-role-accelerating-technological-innovation This essay is based on the working paper “The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution” by W. Walker Hanlon. Recent improvements in artificial intelligence have generated speculation about whether, someday soon, the way that new technologies are developed may be fundamentally altered. Contemplating the possibilities of such a […]
Smartphones fragment our attention!
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/ Smartphones have reduced our attention span — its a good idea to limit their usage.