Future Minds by Watson, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Overture: Screen Culture Part One: How the Digital Era is Changing Our Minds

1 The Rise of the Screenager

10 ways screenagers are thinking differently They want it and they want it now Connectivity addiction Multitasking mayhem The screenage brain Are IQ tests making kids stupid?

2 Pre-Teens: An Apple for Every Teacher

Not enough thinking inside the sand box A cut-and-paste education Why books still matter We need more childlike thinking Dare to dream 10 ways our education system could stimulate young minds

Part Two: Why this Matters

3 Thinking About Thinking

10 ways our minds are different to our machines Computers are stupid A good idea? Thinking ahead Do we own our own thinking? Out of sight but (perhaps) not out of mind

4 The Sex Life of Ideas

Where do ideas come from, daddy? Mental impasses and gridlocks Being unconventional Quantity is quality Two brains are better than one Why clever people make dumb mistakes Why we need to take our ideas to bed Daydream believer Music on the brain Distributed intelligence Celebrate serendipity 10 ways to breed ideas

5 Thinking Spaces

Where do people do their deepest thinking? 10 of my favorite ways to create deep thinking spaces Why we don’t think at work Natural thinking spaces An innocent question Gardening as a metaphor for business Deliberately designed work spaces I think therefore iPod Cathedrals for ideas Organized chaos Paperless offices You don’t need to work here to work here Telepresence and other warped ideas The business of busyness Domestic thinking spaces Third places Change your routine 10 ways in which objects and environments deepen our thinking

Part Three: What we can do about It

6 How to Clear a Blocked Brain

Create time and space Become intellectually promiscuous Keep an ideas diary Retain an open mind Use the bathroom Be patient The benefits of boredom Lose your inhibitions Embrace failure Share the problem Don’t go to work

7 Future Minds

Control-Alt-Delete Reclaiming the time and space to think Not so easy From small beginnings

A Taste of Future Minds: 10 Predictions Notes Bibliography A few interesting websites The soundtrack to the book Acknowledgments Index