Drawing a day: Day 3 (Taken with instagram)

Drawing a day: Day 2 (Taken with instagram)

Drawing a day: Concept for an “Under Construction” page.

Drawing a day: Concept for an “Under Construction” page.

asada0:

Japanease version

The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in…

First instagram :) (Taken with instagram)

stryker:

Shut up, dad. I’m exploring the intersection of art and technology.

tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

Dinosaurs

tek1nowblog:

College for Creative Studies

Talk to your kids about art school.

Advertising Agency: Team Detroit, Dearborn, MI USA Chief Creative Officer: Toby Barlow Creative Director: Gary Pascoe Art Director: Vic Quattrin Copywriter: Joel Wescott Published: October, 2011

futuramb:

Ordinary people are taking control of their health data, making their DNA public and running their own experiments. Their big question: Why should science be limited to professionals?

This article tells the story about a number of non-scientists who tries to perform research on their own outside the academic community and without formal training. They are or course being met by both regulations which work against them, and the mistrust from the professional scientists who have all sorts of arguments why the research is not valid or good enough.

It might of course be true that citizen scientists are producing inferior results to professional scientists, but judging from what is happening in almost all other areas, it will change very soon and the amateurs will give the professional researchers a real challeng.

When citizen scientists realize they don’t have to meet scientists in their own arena and compete by writing formal research articles and get them published in scientific journals heavily guarded by community protecting editors and peer reviewers they will succeed. By publishing books and articles that is reviewed by their own peers they will fast get up to speed and create a knowledge community of their own going.

This development is bound to happen due to

• the vast number of curious, critical and well educated people who is held back by traditional and boring jobs and want to achieve something and contribute to society or even solve a personal problem for themselves or their family
• all knowledge and global communication is going to be available for free
• their are a lot of problems and issues which is relevant to society of people that noone in the scientific community care about - partly due to financial reasons and partly for the reasons of the inertia of the way science is developing into new areas
• the times of structural change and technology development from the an industrial era to a post industrial one will make millions of highly educated people unemployed or just partly employed which leaves them with a lot of spare time - or just a cognitive surplus - which can be used to write books and why not doing research?

This will liberate the knowledge creation processes into many different strands initially creating chaos, but eventually emerge into Science 2.0, a broad and collaborative knowledge process in which everybody can collaborate without having to fight their way into a an old, stubborn and ignorant academic community which often is more interesting in protecting their own kind than to spread curiosity and knowledge creation skills to the masses.

The traditional academic community will most likely not disappear but rather fall back into a small and not so significant niche. Just one small part of a gigantic global knowledge community.