Re: 36 hour online game/research exercise

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/36-hour-online-game-research-exercise-tp7583780p7583783.html

Steve --

No worry, we'll do the research while riding in driverless cars, and the cars will monitor the eyeballs of the pedestrians for inattention to surroundings.  All the eyeballs in parallel and all the driverless cars in the intersection pooling their views.

Yes, they've bundled up all that futurama into the promo video, but the idea of using a game to sort things out sounds intriguing.  I wonder if I get to express my feelings about insurance companies ala GTA.

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 9/10/13 10:12 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

UCSF is running an online game to explore possible avenues of development for medical research, education, and practice, from 8AM Sep 11 to 8PM Sep 12 at http://www.ucsf2025.org/.  There are some interesting ideas in the promotional video already, such as open sourcing the biomedical research literature and getting insurance companies to microfund medical research.

Roger -

This is a very slick vision-caste/vision-quest worthy of the best "day after tomorrow" piece of fiction.  Each of the elements they identify: New models of education with ad-hoc components built in; Crowd sourced data, research, and funding;  Viz - Big as well as ubiquitous; etc.  are very compelling.

I could take a curmudgeon stance on all of these elements and poke holes in them based on existing "tried and true" paradigms, and I'm sure many will, just as others will grasp at the shiny new toys and hope-triggers implied by it all and declare a premature "success".

This vision is probably familiar to many of us in technology as we have probably helped in small ways to build the collective consciousness of the possibilities suggested here.  In some sense, it is a "ripe" future.

The only fundamental criticism I have of the vision involves *further* speeding up and fragmenting human attention and awareness.   It suggests something like becoming part of a hive mind.   The vision as caste here, suggests that we would only experience the benefits of such. If Utopian literature is of any use, it illustrates for us how Utopias and Dystopias are duals.

Fortunately I trust the young (and not so) people in my life to be able to both embrace the possibilities suggested here and consider the downsides of what this type of vision offers them for their careers, their health, and the very qualitative quality of life that is being suggested.

If we thought texting while driving was unsafe, just imagine "doing research while driving"...

- Steve

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