Chapter titles and subtitles
Prologue and chapters 1 and 2 are accessible online...
FOREWORD by Ian Jukes
PROLOGUE -
Human Evolution: From Spear-it Spirit to Net Values
The only experiences worth undertaking are those that require fear to overcome...
CHAPTER 1 - Credo's Doorway
Beware of strangers who know you...
CHAPTER 2 - A Real Education Begins
Beware of pain you get used to...
CHAPTER 3 - Avatars and Who We Ares
Ignorance may be no excuse, but you don't know what you don't know...
CHAPTER 4 - Mr. Big and the Ledge of Objectivity
What happens when you give a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?
CHAPTER 5 - Theory Meets Reality
Seeing is believing, unless you no longer believe what you see
(in which case do you believe?)
CHAPTER 6 - Kim (maybe it's a she, maybe it's a him)
The most elusive substance in the universe is nothing...
CHAPTER 7 - It's About Time
You can always make more money but you can't make more time...
CHAPTER 8 - The Value of Mystery
There will always be a gap between our technology and our imagination...
CHAPTER 9 - The World of Ed Tech
Before you suspect conspiracy, don't rule out incompetence...
CHAPTER 10 - Teaching Rulz
The science of teaching is knowing a number of different teaching methodologies, while the art
is knowing when to use which...
CHAPTER 11 - A Measure of Success
When the instrument of measurement dictates what is important, the measurement becomes the message...
CHAPTER 12 - Untangling the World Wide Web
The first step in getting an education is not knowing something you want to learn...
CHAPTER 13 - The Problem with Our Gods
Whatever you believe, that's who you are...
CHAPTER 14 - Learning that the Business of Business is Learning
Plan for change rather than change your plan...
CHAPTER 15 - How Life Acts and Smells Like an Onion
So many dimensions, so little time...
CHAPTER 16 - Where Machines Come From
Catch 33: the illusion of progress. For every step forward, there is
at least one step back, eventually three or more...
CHAPTER 17 - Filters
Choosing your information filter is as important as choosing your neighborhood...
CHAPTER 18 - Agents of Change
In the past we went to school. In the future, school will come to us...
CHAPTER 19 - No Such Thing as the Technology Itself
With enough practice we can take back the future...
CHAPTER 20 - Art Appreciation
Artists are meteorologists with an attitude...
CHAPTER 21 - Appreciating Art Literacy
Our past is no present for the future...
CHAPTER 22 - Why Technology Needs People
Catch 77: You have to just because you can...
CHAPTER 23 - Communicating with Kim
What is the meaning of meaning?
CHAPTER 24 - Email Bonding
What does the phrase "the seasons of man" mean to a woman living at the equator?
CHAPTER 25 - There Are Two Types of People-Type A, Type B,
and Those Who Can't Count
Anthropology 101 in a sentence: Everyone is insecure, the rest are details...
CHAPTER 26 - Love, Life and Statistical Probabilities
What's love go to do with it? About 33% of everything, give or take a 5% margin of error...
CHAPTER 27 - What's Important
Talk is cheap. Inaction is expensive. Doing pays for itself...
CHAPTER 28 - The Big Day
Now has a way of creeping up on you...
CHAPTER 29 - Rebirth
How come you never see the headline, "Psychic wins lottery?"
EPILOGUE - There's No Page Like HomePage
Everything clicks...
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