VERTRAUEN / TRUST
“Eine Regierung, die alle Bürger verdächtigt, sollte abtreten und sich ein anderes Volk suchen.” Volker Beck “A government, which suspects all it´s citizens should step down and search for another populace.”
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THE AESTHETICS OF REALITY
Undergraduate students were assigned the task of spending from fifteen minutes to an hour in their homes viewing its activities while assuming that they were boarders in the household. They were instructed not to act out the assumption. Thirty-three students reported their experiences. [. . .] “A short, stout man entered the house, kissed me […]
Read MoreQUANTITATIVE EASING
Quantitative easing playfully explained. Watch this, check it for yourself, open the window and scream:’I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ We want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as […]
Read MoreLOVE SPORT
Already a classic. Paintballing by Grant Orchard, collected by Future Shorts .
Read MoreWORK, EFFORT, GOALS & ARTWORKS
“Games are about doing, games are about solving problems, accomplishing goals. And moreover, stories make the process of remember and explaining present to consciousness. It´s not just that we use stories to indulge our desire, to observe the behavior of other humans and think about their motivations and analyze their social behavior, and use language […]
Read MoreSUPERFLEX
SUPERFLEX is a Danish artists’ group founded and directed by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. It has been working since 1993 on a series of projects related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organisation. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods (Supergas) and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe in […]
Read MoreA BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON PLAYING
When an old buddhist monk visited France and saw some pensioners playing petanque he was quite surprised by that and said something like this: “How can they be playing like children and wasting their time, when there are much more important things to do? In our country people of this age go into seclusion and […]
Read MoreGame Theory in Action
Kwang Lim tells about his collegue Sven Feldman applying a Game Theory Concept – The Gale-Shapley Mechanism – to help a city council matching children to kindergartens. The problems so far were e.g. inefficient matching, an incentive for parents to misrepresent their preferences, and “justified envy“, whereby a student prefers a school S that she […]
Read More56 Million Americans Are Playing Social Games [STATS]
It’s no secret that social games are one of the hottest (and potentially most lucrative) aspects of social networks today. But it’s a mistake to think that casual, social network-based games are just for web geeks. A new study from market research firm NPD Group shows that one out of every five Americans over the […]
Read MoreNEOLUDDISM? NEOLUDISM!
source: www.benjennings.com.au/images/nl_07.gif Something to welcome or be afraid of. Is there a rise of Neoluddism? Opposed to change and technology replacing humans this term seems to be as anachronoistic as fresh in an Age of ubiquitous technology. Maybe the term Neoludism would be more inspiring… thefreedictionary.com
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