Connected We Can Do More [Commercial]

Connected We Can Do More [Commercial]

Today, values of connection are increasingly entering popular culture, where in this commercial, these values are being used to promote a TV service. This is already a step forward from the past, when individualistic values of “me being better, more popular, stronger, faster, richer than others” would mostly permeate advertisements. Hopefully, this is a step toward the near future when we will promote values of connection themselves, not in order to promote products or services, but to promote the values themselves, so that they would increasingly permeate society and human...
Every Man Is A Piece Of The Continent, A Part Of The Main

Every Man Is A Piece Of The Continent, A Part Of The Main

Nowadays we fly around like individual bees exulting in our freedom. But sometimes we wonder: Is this all there is? What should I do with my life? What’s missing? What’s missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves. It’s really comfortable down here on the lower level. Come, have a seat in my home entertainment center. One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top. … Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger. And this explains the extraordinary resonance of this simple metaphor conjured up nearly 400 years ago. ‘No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.'” –Jonathan...
Globalize Yourself

Globalize Yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU This era of globalization is not characterized by countries globalizing, it is not spearheaded by companies globalizing. Now what is really new, really unique, really exciting and really terrifying, is that this era of globalization is built around individuals. What is new, unique, terrifying and exciting about this era of globalization is the degree to which it empowers and enjoins, the degree to which it enables and requires individuals to globalize themselves and to think of themselves as potential connectors, collaborators and competitors with other individuals anywhere in the world.” –Thomas Friedman, in the above video, The 3 Eras of...
Interconnected Networks – The Modern Day Norm For Understanding The Organization Of Information And Social Interactions

Interconnected Networks – The Modern Day Norm For Understanding The Organization Of Information And Social Interactions

Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, shows how interconnected networks are increasingly becoming the modern day norm for understanding the organization of information and social interactions, and as a result, visualized networks are increasing in popularity as cultural memes. In An Interconnected Network, If One Element Changes, The Whole Network Changes As shown in the above video, a defining factor of an interconnected network is that if one of its elements changes, that change affects the whole network and thus the whole network changes. Accordingly, a collapse in one part of the network clearly causes all the other parts to be affected by it, as is most painfully and obviously exemplified by the global financial crisis. Thus, this interconnected network perspective of understanding the organization of social interactions clearly shows the need for mutual responsibility as a leading social value. When Will Commonly Accepted Social Values Grow To Harness The Interconnected Network Perspective In Human Relationships? As knowledge advances to harness the interconnected network outlook on every area of life, the  social values that characterize “the world of the past” – individualism, maximizing profits and self-interest – and their methods of stratification and protectionism still prevail in human society. What will it take for society at large to realize how living to satisfy one’s individual interests is an outdated way of living, which leads to increasing crisis? Moreover, is it possible that the flourishing knowledge of interconnected networks could start penetrating and reformatting the way human beings relate to each other, before facing another crisis tipping...