Reader Responce 6

In part two of the book, A Whole New Mind, pink goes on to describe the “six senses,” that have become essential in this new era. These six senses are design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning. Pink goes on to state how “we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by mastering six essential R-Directed aptitudes.” I agree with this statement because now a days, it’s not about facts, it’s about the big picture. We take something simple and make it bigger and more beautiful.

Design is a big part of society today. Almost every product invented today has design or is made by a designer brand. For instance, Pink told us the story of when he went shopping and came out with a designer toilet brush. Products that have design and are beautiful and emotionally engaging are what catch our eye. Most people also use certain product design to show their personalities, and what they are like.

Story is something that I always come into conflict with. Pink explains to us how, now our information date that we have is never enough for an argument because there will always be someone there to top your point. Class is a good example of this. When you are in the classroom and having a discussion about a topic, people could go on forever saying their points and trying to persuade and top the other person’s argument.

I found symphony the hardest sense for me to really associate with and grasp an example, but I still believe it is true. I even find myself now looking at the big picture of things instead of focusing on specific facts. People are more willing to take risks and put themselves out there.

Empathy is also another big factor that I think is tied into today’s society. Logical thought is not the focus of people attention. Although logic is still tied into how people think empathy greatly takes over. As Pink states, “What will distinguish those who thrive will be their ability to understand what makes their fellow woman or man tick, to forge relationships, and to care for others.”

Play is also another big factor in today’s society. If you look around people are more relaxed and not as serious. I agree with Pink in the fact that yes there are times to be serious, but we all need to play. I am a strong believer in that humor and laughter is what makes us strong and happy in the end. Play is what lets us be relaxed and get over the stress in out lives.

Lastly is meaning. Meaning is an important aspect of our lives. It allows people to be free and let people go from their day-to-day struggles that they may be facing. Meaning is also very important in the spiritual world. It allows people to make sense of the world around them and gives them a sense of ease and comfort.

Reader Responce 5

A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink is an extremely interesting book. Like Smart Mobs, it is a lot of times hard for me to get into books that are very factual, but not this one. In my major, speech pathology we talk a lot about the brain and how it works, but as I noticed most of what we learn is from the left side of the brain. This book opens my eyes to a whole other world of the brain where as Pink and I also believe, is the future.

The right side of the brain is our more artistic side where artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, and big picture thinkers lye. As Pink describes, we are moving from an economy and society built on logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and society built on the inventive, empathic, big picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.

Pink brings up a good point when he talks about Target and how almost everything we come upon today is designer. I agree with him in the sense that the right hemisphere is greatly involved in the make up of society and lifestyle today. I can relate to Pink, in where he states that he had gone into Target and even his toilet brush was designer. Ridiculous and untrue as this may sound, I went into a unfamiliar store the other day and my lips were feeling chapped so I decided to go and get some chapstick and when I found it, I picked it up, and it was all fancy and had some Italian designers name on the case!

I believe that creativity has greatly expanded today and now the focus of the left side of the brain with logic and analysis, is going to shift to the creative and "big picture" side of the brain. As Pink, also describes, in many ways both sides of the brain work together, so it would be impossible to say on side is extremely more imporant than the other, but they are both used different. One may be perticularly dominate in some ways than the other, but in many tasks both sides are used together to accomplish what needs to be accomplished.

Proposal for Short Video

As I had seen on the course blog many people in the class had great ideas for the short video such as following technology through history and showing how advanced we have become. Another great idea someone had was to have a student who technology is a huge part of their life and follow them a day without using such technology and see how they react to it. Through these I came up with the idea to follow the individuals in the group and show exactly how much technology affects their lives and how much people are now usually the technology today. I think it would be interesting to see the differences in peoples lives and how they use technology. I know even within my group, we are all different and shared the different types of technology we use with each other. The technologies people use can even show peoples personalities and the type of people they are. That is why I think it would be interesting to show how technology affects all of us individually and how advanced or behind we all may be with them.

First Neovox Essay!

I thought that the neovox article was a good assignment to have. I have never before been away about the neovox sight and that they had as many articles as the did have. I enjoyed doing this article because I feel that writing an article and posting it on neovox allows you to put your opinions and experiences out there and allow people to benefit from them.

I chose to write about taking an online course. I chose this because it is something I have never really before been aware of, and before taking it there are a lot of things that I was unaware about and wish that I could have been informed about before taking them. At first I thought it was going to be hard to write so much about this topic and was considering changing it to something else, but then when I sat down to write it, I had more to say then I thought. I believe by writing about what an online course requires as well as my experiences will help others in deciding how they want to go about their educational experiences. For some people online courses are a great way to go and for others may not be so benefical.

I also really enjoyed the neovox workshop. When I write essays I always tend to skip over my mistakes, but when someone else corrects it they are able to find a lot more to fix than you could do yourself. I thought it was great how the whole class was able to look over each others essays and help make them better. I never knew you could go into word and use a editing system, where you can mark on the persons paper through the computer. I found that to be really helpful and useful as well.

Reader Responce 4

In the beginning of the novel it is hard to tell the role of Hiro Protagonist's character. As the story progresses you learn he is just a regular guy living in the world of new technology. Hiro is a pizza deliverman for Cosa Nostra pizza where they must deliver a pizza in thirty minutes or less. When he is not working in reality as a pizza delivery man, he works as a freelance hacker.

He helped to create Metaverse a virtual reality world that would overpass anything created in reality today. While in the Metaverse, Hiro is a warrior fighting off people with his samari sword as well as his strong nd persistant character. Once snow crash was presented and Hiro went to fight Rife in distroying Snow Crash I think, he did indeed beome a real warrior. He was able to resist the temptation of it as other people could not such as Da5id.

I think that Hiro's name is significant to the novel in which he was a true "Hero." His involvement in the Metaverse was beneficial to the vitual world as well as reality. Although broke in reality, he is one of the original creaters of Metaverse. Hiro goes on to destroy Snow Crash with Y.T. and Juanita by his side.