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Learning to learn again
Someone said that creativity is the art of keeping the butt on the seat. I think learning is, too. I want to absorb Dreamweaver. I have the textbook. I have the application. But not enough energy on weeknights to read more than two pages. And ants in my pants.
Brought to you by the Museum of Modern Art
Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.
An Android in your phone
Why release a new phone when you can supply the software that can be used to write applications for all phones? That’s Google logic. Introducing Android SDK (software development kit) from Google.
