Persist.

Tourism is one of the most persistent human activities.
http://www.delo.si/mnenja/turizem-je-ena-najbolj-trdozivih-cloveskih-aktivnosti.html

Future.

"Silicon Valley entrepreneurs mostly view cultural, institutional, governance and even dating issues as technology challenges waiting to be solved. But the challenge and promise of a new future must be addressed holistically. The creations coming out of Silicon Valley in the form of apps, devices and software platforms are not so much facilitating a 'race against the machines,' but a race against our own social institutions, values and practices, and that is the future." 

Photo: Dejan

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/22/is-silicon-valley-saving-the-world-or-just-making-money/innovation-is-happening-faster-than-we-can-adapt

Jump.

Great service innovation jumps between two countries that are more alike than meets the eye wink emoticon Thank you, Kotaro!

 — at Jaist Satellite.

https://www.facebook.com/dejan.krizaj/posts/10153022973704361

Respond.

"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are — as far as we know — the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness. We might have come along so that the universe could look at itself. I don’t know that, but we’re made of the same stuff that stars are made of, or that floats around in space. But we’re combined in such a way that we can describe what it’s like to be alive, to be witnesses. Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding." Mark Strand (1934–2014)

Photo: Dejan

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/28/mark-strand-creativity/?mc_cid=f2a44c2b67&mc_eid=8a631ce51e
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/mark-strand-80-dies-pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate.html?_r=0

Switch.

"The online learning partnership offsets some of the disadvantages that can come with being a high-achieving student in a small, isolated school district, providing the chance to take challenging academic courses that many schools can't offer."

In which part of this wiring is your switch?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/education/how-online-learning-can-close-the-ap-participation-gap-20150127

Photo: Dejan

New learning and engagement.

"(...) we tend to feel awfully guilty about it, supposing that our time in front of our devices should be “constructive” and “productive” when it is, in reality, both productive and aimless. Since our lives have pretty much moved to the screen, we can expect our time on the Internet to be as varied as life itself. It’s a mistake to describe our online experience as monolithic: sometimes we need to work and other times we need to drift, to waste time, to fuck off. Learning and engagement continues as before, but it takes new and different forms. I think it’s time to drop the guilt about wasting time on the Internet, and move on. Surely we’re more complex than that."

Kenneth Goldsmith, Why I am Teaching A Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet“

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wasting-time-on-the-internet

Photo: Dejan

Books to recommend.

"It is really hard to say which books one should recommend. The best is if they are somehow intriguing, kind of not the obvious choices. Books that open a new way of thinking, a new culture, present a person´s world that one is not so familiar with."
Pekka Metso

http://metinalista.si/i-like-the-books-tell-a-good-story-that-stays-in-my-head-pekka-metso/

Photo: Dejan

Boundary Spanners for Contemporary Problems

"It is logical to expect that if academia were to become more institutionally organized to tackle contemporary problems in the way that competitive firms are expected to behave rather than remain tied to historical disciplinary boundaries, then one would expect that boundary spanners would obtain better near-term outcomes."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/31/study-finds-phds-who-write-interdisciplinary-dissertations-earn-less#

Creativity in Tourism

http://www.dnevnik.si/poslovni/zaposl/z-znanjem-in-kreativnostjo-tudi-v-turizmu-do-zanimivega-dela

Google translate: http://goo.gl/NQnnBX

Glass

Transparent future.
Via tnooz.

Canada 2010

https://picasaweb.google.com/dejan.krizaj/1010Canada#

What are you thinking right now?

The final question/answer of the video are worth waiting.
Via DailyBits.

Limited?

Michael Witbrock's tweet:

at iCiS workshop "No single human can synthesize data from 100 million scientific articles and 1,000 data sources" -> no set of humans can

Photo: Dejan

New thinking

"It would be great if pupils, students, people... - in addition to established ways of thinking (analyze, criticize, argue, categorize, defend our own perspective) - had chance to learn to think in other ways (cooperative research, constructively plan the future, simplify, take into account perspectives and perceptions of others, focus)."

Nastja Mulej, Council 4 New Thinking

Science-Fiction, Science-Passion.

"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is finite."

Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Photo: wikipedia.org

Playing or working?

"... people usually experience as work what they have to do by some external force, whereas to experience something as play, they must feel that they have chosen to do it voluntarily."

Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Photo: Dejan

Too modern.

http://www.premoderno.com/
English: second picture.

Ouch.

"We do not invest in an idea, but in an enterpreneur or enterpreneur team. We have checked apx. 400 business plans in last three years and the idea itself is worth nothing in business. There is always 10 Slovenes more with the same idea, 50 Europeans, 100 Chinese... Business is competition - who will have the best team, the best strategy, the best marketing."

Slovenian Business Angels, Blaž Kos, coordinator (Slovene links: 1, 2)

Photo: Dejan

Random existence.

"It is weird and unfair, said Gauss, pure example of lousy randomness of existence, that you are born in certain time and you belong to it if you want it or not. This gives you certain advantage compared to past, but it makes fun of you compared to future."

D. Kehlmann - Measuring the World (English)

Photo: Dejan, more than 100 years old Romanian "bowling center"

The Pattern: time-, world- and culture-wide.

"The easiest way to rule the crowds is to use credulity and fear, two basic weaknesses of people."

Janez Jezeršek - Arhipelag Goli

Photo: lusi, www.sxc.hu