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 MoreI do not know who made the cartoon, but it depicts in a wonderfully functional way how to properly interact with programmers…
Read More“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 MoreWhen 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 MoreBy now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web — building a “social layer” on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.
Read MoreKwang 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 MoreIt’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 Moresource: 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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