I can’t watch the videos at the moment, but will make a note to do so when time for them allows. In the meantime, check out some of Will’s speech from his Engage! Expo presentation.
Wright takes what he called “an evolutionist view of human behavior.” When humans encounter a new situations, they collect data, classify it, employ empathy to try to predict outcomes, and figure out what kinds of action they can take, thus developing hypotheses. But when we’re young, we have limited experiences, so play and story allow us to enlarge our experiential range. Imagination lets us test possible scenarios, and thus develop metaphors and schema, which lead to world concepts.
Play has seeped into our culture at large, Wright said, pointing to all the devices we surround ourselves with. Along with their other functions, cell phones, cars, and even gadgets like the Roomba must now also entertain us. We have so much data coming in without natural filters that information is starting to replace instincts. But we can also use our devices as conduits to provide information: Because of computers and the Web, he said, and the overlap of online communities, we’re moving toward a sort of cooperative collective intelligence — a “hive mind.”
I will be really furious of because of that stupid jessica this site wiki article gets deleted >: ( look what jessica who had been probably editing too the wiki site article posted yesterday – a message she received from a wiki mod and it says this:
SimPrograms
If the Jessica nonsense is irrelevant, then so is the site staffs discussion of her. As I told the unregistered user yesterday, if you guys feel the need to start expanding this article, please start off with something that explains why the site should have an article here at all. Please provide some reliable sources that explain what makes this site notable. –Onorem♠Dil 20:40, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
and is pretty stupid since the site DO have a lot of reliable sources >:l
oh and I took a Prnt scrn of what that mod is probably talking abt. it was one of the simprograms staff that deleted the latest edit or was it that Onoreme person? here is what i’m talking abt:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2s9rx3b.png
I do not believe that it was any staff from our site as I was constantly monitoring the wikipedia last night to be sure that Jessica didn’t change it, and I had not even seen that part of the article, however, Jud was right for stepping in at that point in time and yes, we do have a lot of reliable resources, I have already apologized, and I will be checking the wikipedia article daily to check if it has been changed.
being the first time that I have read that section I have to say that it is truly disrespectful (the article section) towards everyone who works hard on this site (especially Jud). And I would also like to thank all of our loyal viewers/subscribers for respecting us and the site rules.
For anymore questions or comments regarding this incident, please email me at: simprogramsmailbag@yahoo.com as opposed to commenting on unrelated subjects.
:O What happened to my Wikipedia article? They grow up so fast 😉
Hey everyone. Just a note on the Wikipedia article. I’m part of a anti-vandalism team at Wikipedia. I’ll monitoring this article over the next few days and if needed, use my extra permissions on the site to remove future vandalism. I’ve requested deletion of the unlicensed, copyrighted screenshot used and request semi-protection on the article to avoid future vandalism. I’ll work on the page to bring it more up to standard soon.
Thank you to both Connor and Luke for looking into this. 🙂
I’ve also correctly updated the header image used on Wikipedia to correct licensing.
@ConnorJack exactly how do you have “extra permissions”?
Simillion, I have rollbacking powers which is a more extreme “undo” button to prevent against vandalism. It’s been a long time now, but back in my days of Wikipedia, i’d monitor new changes to avoid vandalism being mainstream.