Future Minds

How The Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It

By: Richard Watson

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Paperback | 10 November 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Why, in an age of too much information and too little time, should you read this book?We are on the cusp of a revolution. Mobile phones, computers and iPods are commonplace in hundreds of millions of households worldwide, influencing how we think and shaping how we interact.

In the future, smart machines will compete with clever people for employment and even human affection. We are shifting to a world where knowledge will be automated and people will be rewarded instead as conceptual and creative thinkers. Hence being able to think and act in ways that machines cannot will become vital. Ideas are the currency of this new economy and curiosity and imagination are among the key raw materials. But what happens to the rigour of our thinking in a world where we never really sit still or completely switch off? What are some of the unexpected consequences of digital information on the 100 billion cells and quadrillion connections inside our brains?

Future Minds illustrates how to maximise the potential of digital technology and minimise its greatest downside, addressing the future of thinking and how we can ensure that we unleash the extraordinary potential of the human mind. In this absorbing new book, discover all about: the sex life of ideas; the rise of the screenager; generations, gender and geography; delving deep inside your head; how to clear a blocked brain; why clever people make dumb mistakes; why we are so afraid of doing nothing; what we can do to reclaim our brains.

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A great case for how to think, not what to think in these fast moving and complex times. Watson's message is clear - our innate imagination and human ability to think deeply about life and issues are the best assets we have to deliver us safely to the future. Full of wonderfully inspired quotations, sage predictions and abundance of source material this is a "how to" that is a definitely a "must have." - Ellen Sideri, Founder & CEO, ESP Trendlab, New York "A reflective and insightful look into how the next generation will think, feel and shape our society" Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE author of ID: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century

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Overture: Screen Culture	p. 1
How The Digital Era Is Changing Our Minds	p. 9
The Rise of the Screenager	p. 11
10 ways screenagers are thinking differently	p. 12
They want it and they want it now	p. 12
Connectivity addiction	p. 16
Multitasking mayhem	p. 20
The screenage brain	p. 21
Are IQ tests making kids stupid?	p. 25
Pre-Teens: An Apple for Every Teacher	p. 28
Not enough thinking inside the sand box	p. 30
A cut-and-paste education	p. 34
Why books still matter	p. 36
We need more childlike thinking	p. 39
Dare to dream	p. 42
10 ways our education system could stimulate young minds	p. 44
Why This Matters	p. 45
Thinking About Thinking	p. 47
10ways our minds are different to our machines	p. 49
Computers are stupid	p. 50
A good idea?	p. 52
Thinking ahead	p. 53
Do we own our own thinking?	p. 56
Out of sight but(perhaps)not out of mind	p. 60
The Sex Life of Ideas	p. 63
Where do ideas come from, daddy?	p. 63
Mental impasses and gridlocks	p. 66
Being unconventional	p. 68
Quantity is quality	p. 69
Two brains are better than one	p. 71
Why clever people make dumb mistakes	p. 74
Why we need to take our ideas to bed	p. 77
Daydream believer	p. 79
Music on the brain	p. 80
Distributed intelligence	p. 82
Celebrate serendipity	p. 84
10 ways to breed ideas	p. 87
Thinking Spaces	p. 88
Where do people do their deepest thinking?	p. 89
10 of my favorite ways to create deep thinking spaces	p. 97
Why we don'think at work	p. 98
Natural thinking spaces	p. 99
An innocent question	p. 100
Gardening as a metaphor for business	p. 102
Deliberately designed work spaces	p. 104
I think therefore iPod	p. 109
Cathedrals for ideas	p. 111
Organized chaos	p. 114
Paperless offices	p. 117
You don't need to work here to work here	p. 119
Telepresence and other warped ideas	p. 120
The business of busyness	p. 122
Domestic thinking spaces	p. 124
Third places	p. 126
Change your routine	p. 128
10 ways in which objects and environments deepen our thinking	p. 130
What We Can Do About It	p. 131
How to Clear a Blocked Brain	p. 133
Create time and space	p. 134
Become intellectually promiscuous	p. 138
Keep an ideas diary	p. 140
Retain an open mind	p. 141
Use the bathroom	p. 145
Be patient	p. 147
The benefits of boredom	p. 148
Lose your inhibitions	p. 152
Embrace failure	p. 153
Share the problem	p. 155
Don't go to work	p. 158
Future Minds	p. 160
Control-Alt-Delete	p. 160
Reclaiming the time and space to think	p. 163
Not so easy	p. 165
From small beginnings	p. 167
A Taste of Future Minds: 10 Predictions	p. 170
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 183
A few interesting websites	p. 195
The soundtrack to the book	p. 197
Acknowledgments	p. 199
Index	p. 200
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