Blog by Edward B. Rockower, Ph.D. http://blog.rockower.com One man's ruminations, explanations, pontifications... Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:24:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Forbidden Planet, Movie & Metaphor http://blog.rockower.com/forbidden-planet-movie-metaphor/ http://blog.rockower.com/forbidden-planet-movie-metaphor/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:49:47 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=431 “Forbidden Planet”, the Movie: a Metaphor for our times and a Cautionary Tale for “Cognitive Assistants”1, 2? In the 1956 movie, the extinct Krell are described as having had highly moral conscious minds, and vastly advanced technology that they developed to provide huge benefits to their race. However, they failed to take into account their […]

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]]> http://blog.rockower.com/forbidden-planet-movie-metaphor/feed/ 1 “Your body language shapes who you are”, TED Talk Comment: Power vs. Humility Postures http://blog.rockower.com/body-language-shapes-you-power-vs-humility-postures/ http://blog.rockower.com/body-language-shapes-you-power-vs-humility-postures/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:25:47 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=280 Harvard Business School Sociologist Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk has been viewed over 9 million times She speaks about how “Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves.”  and how ” ‘power posing’ — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone […]

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]]> http://blog.rockower.com/body-language-shapes-you-power-vs-humility-postures/feed/ 1 Why Can’t We Solve Big Problems?: My response to the TED Discussion http://blog.rockower.com/why-cant-we-solve-big-problems/ http://blog.rockower.com/why-cant-we-solve-big-problems/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:29:23 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=197 This post is my (first) comment in response to the TED.com discussion “Why Can’t We Solve Big Problems?  The Discussion was started by Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief & Publisher, MIT’s Technology Review.  He says:   “I think that  blithe optimism about technology’s powers has evaporated as big problems that people had imagined technology would […]

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]]> http://blog.rockower.com/why-cant-we-solve-big-problems/feed/ 3 Why Was Socrates So Wise? (and in what way was he wise?) http://blog.rockower.com/why-was-socrates-so-wise/ http://blog.rockower.com/why-was-socrates-so-wise/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:41:59 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=134 Would Socrates have been so wise if he were born rich and handsome, and if he’d had a happy marriage?   I think not. One day, one of Socrates’ students came to him asking, “a friend is thinking of getting married, would you advise him to marry or not?”  Socrates replied, “by all means he should marry.  […]

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]]> http://blog.rockower.com/why-was-socrates-so-wise/feed/ 3 A Humanistic Art of Thinking: Better http://blog.rockower.com/humanistic-art-thinking-better/ http://blog.rockower.com/humanistic-art-thinking-better/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:37:49 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=77 This post includes the October, 2012 response I submitted to the US “Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity” (IARPA) Request for Information (RFI),   IARPA-RFI-12-04  The RFI was in support of “Strengthening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem Solving (SHARP)” “A Humanistic Art of Thinking: Better” Based on interviews I conducted with over 20 leaders of Modeling & Simulation, Systems […]

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]]> http://blog.rockower.com/humanistic-art-thinking-better/feed/ 1 Concentration of Power: Focus, Lanchester, & Network Effect http://blog.rockower.com/concentration-of-power-focus-lanchester-network-effect/ http://blog.rockower.com/concentration-of-power-focus-lanchester-network-effect/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:51:23 +0000 http://blog.rockower.com/?p=26 Consider 3 models of Systems of individual entities  (think: people, computers, companies, Social Network Analysis, Network Theory, Dark Networks, … ) 1)  In the Analysis I offered regarding Large Organizations becoming out of touch with reality, there was the tacit assumption that individuals ‘inside’ the organization were somewhat blocked from seeing and interacting with the […]

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