Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
In an age where fashion continually romps through society’s wardrobes and technology governs our everyday lives, we’ve finally reached a crossroads where industry boundaries between apparel brands and digital platforms have started to blur. And consumer wearables—the bridge between these two worlds—are the catalyst for that convergence.
via Why the wearable explosion is driving tech and fashion convergence — Tech News and Analysis.
From The New Inquiry- “The conflict between the self as social performance and the self as authentic expression of one’s inner truth has roots much deeper than social media. It has been a concern of much theorizing about modernity and, if you agree with these theories, a mostly unspoken preoccupation throughout modern culture.”
From Wired – With a glamorous, modular showroom to sell what could be the most radical advance in wearable communication technology ever, Google may have done just that. Until Apple puts a Genius Bar on the moon, its stores are in serious danger of looking like the past. If its floating store is real, Google looks like the one barging in on the future.
via Apple, Google, and What May Be the Floating Store of the Future | Wired Business | Wired.com.
From Harvard Business Review: Which is the more likely cause of death — shark attack or falling airplane parts? The answer to Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahnemann’s question is surprising; falling airplane parts. (In fact, you are 30 times more likely to die from a piece of falling airplane than you are at the jaws of a shark.) We have tested this query with senior executives across multiple continents, and they inevitably get it wrong. Why does this happen? Events are perceived as more likely to occur if they are easier to bring to mind. We have the TV special Shark Week and movies like Jaws to remind us of the danger of sharks, but there is no Airplane Debris Week. With unfamiliar, low probability events, disproportionate media coverage can lead to gross estimation errors.
From Mashable – While technology is often cited as a barrier to real human connection, it also unites people in a way that\’s changing communities and individual lives, as well as how we do business. And it\’s happening all over the country.
FACT: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency.
Take the online color challenge, based on the official FM100 Hue Test by X-Rite.
MIT Technology Review shows us where to find the world’s largest innovation clusters – looking for the next Silicon Valley.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 