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So we wanted to change the way that students approach technology, to create a more convivial and social space that was more engaging, more accessible, and also to increase the ability for teachers to use these spaces for technology-based instruction.
We need to reverse-engineer our present artistic tastes and preferences and explain how they came to be engraved in our minds by the actions of both our prehistoric, largely pleistocene environments, where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved.
So what we have learned from social scientists and economists like Elinor Ostrom, who are studying the phenomenon of management of the commons on a local scale, is that there are certain prerequisites that you can put into place that enable you to manage and access open space for the good of one and all.
We have only been discussing and consumed with high-level preoccupations over troop levels, drawdown timelines, surges and sting operations, when we should be examining the details of where the social fabric has been most torn, where the community has improvised and survived and shown acts of resilience and amazing courage just to keep life going.
Human beings are a social species.
These days, everybody has the ability to showcase their brand their personal style, across the world, through social media.
This is a social enterprise, not-for-profit cooperative supermarket.
And they were not able to defeat all social injustice.
So we like to see profits, plus positive social and environmental benefits, when we invest.
They're used to thinking of themselves as providers, and they can't seem to build the social networks that allow them to get through college.
The thing is that we have this amazing ticket to travel our social worlds, but we don't use it very well.
And today, what I want to talk about is: What are those habits that keep human beings so close to home, and how can we be a little bit more intentional about traveling our social universe?
The first strategy is to use a more imperfect social search engine.
What I mean by a social search engine is how you are finding and filtering your friends.
What you are doing with this exercise is you are forcing yourself to see what you don't want to see, to connect with who you don't want to connect with, to widen your social world.
When researchers talk about social hubs, what makes a social hub so special is you can't choose; you can't predict who you're going to meet in that place.
And so with these social hubs, the paradox is, interestingly enough, to get randomness, it requires, actually, some planning.
At another university I worked at, there was only one mail room, so all the faculty from all over that building would run into each other in that social hub.
Here's my question for you: What are you doing that breaks you from your social habits?
We've got to make ourselves a little more inefficient, and by doing so, we are creating a more imprecise social search engine.
And you're creating that randomness, that luck that is going to cause you to widen your travels, through your social universe.
Sometimes we actually buy ourselves a second-class ticket to travel our social universe.
When your psychological world is breaking down, the hardest thing to do is to try and reach out and build up your social world.
Each of these words is a word that helps us impose upon other people in our social networks.
When you say "You're welcome" next time, think about how you can maybe eliminate the transaction and instead strengthen that social tie.
I want you to think about how you think about this ticket that you have to travel your social universe.
Why not instead think of yourself as an atom, bumping up against other atoms, maybe transferring energy with them, bonding with them a little and maybe creating something new on your travels through the social universe.
I had no social life.
So what's actually happening is that social networks and real-time technologies are taking us back.
From the mighty eBay, the grandfather of exchange marketplaces, to car-sharing companies such as GoGet, where you pay a monthly fee to rent cars by the hour, to social lending platforms such as Zopa, that will take anyone in this audience with 100 dollars to lend, and match them with a borrower anywhere in the world, we're sharing and collaborating again in ways that I believe are more hip than hippie.
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