http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/ted-creative-kids-smarter.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:39:42 +0000 Sugata Mitra shares his opinions on how traditional pedagogical methods should adapt to the digital and connected 21st century. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/wmmna-one-photographers-take-on-the-architecture-of-fear.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:02:41 +0000 An interview with a photographer who shoots CIA 'black sites' and covert satellites. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/pr2-robot-will-buy-you-a-subway-sandwich-for-lunch.html Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:14:52 +0000 Robot PR2 can make inferences about what it doesn't know based upon similar objects and its environment.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/cia-looking-to-mine-social-media-data.html Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:45:41 +0000 The intelligence community intends to follow social media sites for data to predict significant political and societal events.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/the-future-of-media-and-technology-video.html Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:30:46 +0000 A panel discussion at the 2011 PSFK Conference in NYC on the future of media, technology and the social network.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/making-ourselves-smarter-with-mental-exercise.html Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:19:35 +0000 University of Michigan researchers develop intelligence boosting tests which question intelligence as inherited vs. trainable.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/the-benefits-of-a-wandering-mind.html Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:00:29 +0000 Daydreaming may not be so bad, a recent research study concludes.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/taking-funny-kitten-videos-seriously.html Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:04:37 +0000 What if the central question of the Internet was not whether it is making society smarter or dumber, but rather, how it reflects us?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/brain-adaptation-or-apocalypse.html Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:27:54 +0000 The New York Times’ Idea of the Day Blog recently led us to an interesting article in the Atlantic discussing the complex predictions of “intelligence augmentation” and how our species will adapt to exponential information with faster cognitive abilities.  Author Jamais Cascio examines the history of human intelligence and argues that as our information filtering abilities increase it will be inevitable to experiment and then utilize technologies to make you smarter. While an article in the Atlantic from last summer argues that Google is making us stupid, Cascio argues this summer that Google is making us smarter by providing anRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/our-tools-may-make-us-smarter.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:19:29 +0000 In a ponderable counterpoint to Nicholas Carr’s controversial “Is Google Making Us Stoopid” article, Discover Magazine claims that Google, and other tools (digital and otherwise) are actually making us smarter. The essence of their argument is that humans are made to use tools to extend the reach and abilities of their brains beyond the factory-installed hardware inside our heads, thus making us more intelligent. Discover reports: We tend to think of the mind as separated from the world; we imagine information trickling into our senses and reaching our isolated minds, which then turn that information into a detailed picture ofRead more...]]>