One could argue (…) that talk and writing differ in relative cerebral dominance. (…) if language is more related to the right hemisphere, then writing may be more related to the left hemisphere. If this is the case, then writing might use or even stimulate parts of the brain that are not stimulated by talking
Robert Ornstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_therapy
Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
The people at Davos and in Aspen also think they’re saving the world, and the majority of them are also deeply involved in making it much worse for people who can’t afford to go to Davos and Aspen. It is no wonder at all that a talk on how their voluntary charity can better the lives of the unwashed is received with much more enthusiasm than one on how a better use for their money would be for them to have much less of it and everyone else a little more.
Must watch. Neil Gaiman addresses the University of the Arts, class of 2012.
Source: to-do-without-doing
Tiny projects keep it new.
Fundamentally this is one of the tensions in centralizing all your communications into a small handful of privately held, globally scaled, profit motivated corporations, and then centralizing people into semi-archaic, geo-political niche regulated markets we like to call countries.
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