kismetism

Sir Ken Robinson is totally my hero. Our views on education align perfectly, only he’s way more eloquent and smart sounding when he says it.

This is a follow-up to his previous TED talk, which I know I’ve linked before, but I’m more than happy to link it over and over and over until the cows come home because it’s that good.

TEDxPennQuarter - Frank Lantz - Reinventing Gaming.

This video is a little heavy and think-y. :P Nevertheless, there were some bits and pieces of wisdom that I thought were nice. But I wrote them down here, so if that’s all you care about, then maybe you don’t need to make time for the video. XP

Unlike the games of tennis and chess and Street Fighter, where you are punished for bad play right away, in poker you can make a bad play and be rewarded. And you can make a good play and be punished.

… It forces you to think beyond the sort of ‘local moment’ and the particular situation.

… What you discover that you need is a different kind of confidence. The kind of confidence that knows that some of your ideas are right, and some of your ideas are wrong. And you can’t believe everything you think.

John Underkoffler on G-speak at TED.

This presentation actually was not NEARLY as impressive as the one he gave at USC, when his company gifted USC with a G-speak system (which lived in Flowerspace). He had most of the functions of the gestural system, but didn’t really demonstrate them specifically… and projection would have only covered the stage area, whereas in Flowerspace, the enclosed area was small enough that the projection / camera coverage included nearly the entire space.

Still, something to look at, to give you an idea of how far along we may or may not be. John sells the concepts of needing to revolutionize UI and developing a new OS very well, at any rate. ;x

Fabulous.

The Kotaku iPad article made a mention of this in-development MIT experiment called the SixthSense and the screencap was interesting, so I Googled and was pleasantly intrigued by the TED video that came up for it.

There are definitely similar strains of work occurring with this and the Gspeak (aka Minority Report system) that MIT was also developing.

I also find it relevant how they call it the “SixthSense” system, considering Manda’s belief that Twitter is Telepathy… something that my gut instinct wanted to reject, but I admit I was partially won by her reasoning. >_>