Future Minds How the Digital Age Is Changing

why, in an age of too much information and too little time, should you read this book?

Richard Watson is the author of the acclaimed Future Files.which was described as Part Jules verne part Malcolm Gladwell a thought provoking laughter inducing delight' (publishers weekly).He is also a speaker and strategist who advises governments, NGOs and major corporations on the future with a focus on where technology meets trends, Founder of what's Next and co-founder of Strategy insight, he balances his time between Australia and the UK, where he lives with his wife and two future minds(aged eight and ten)

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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Future Minds How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It

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