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Preface
Preface iv Education and founder of two businesses applying cognitive science, CogZest5, which provides publications and services, and CogSci Apps Corp., which develops software. Each of my roles has called me to quickly transform with knowledge and technology. In January 2010, shortly before Apple's long-awaited tablet was announced, I wrote a blog article for SharpBrains⁶ detailing the cognitive productivity demands I thought it should address.7 When the iPad was announced, it received mixed reviews; but it really impressed me.
So I wrote another blog post for SharpBrains⁸, briefly evaluating the iPad and highlighting ways it could be improved to further increase cognitive productivity. Wanting to make a “dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs put it, I emailed Jobs to congratulate him on Apple's latest innovation and suggest ways Apple could better support cognitive productivity. I offered Apple a white paper on the subject; Steve Jobs asked me to send it to him.
I refer to the ability and propensity to use knowledge for this purpose as "meta-effectiveness." I hope this book will help us fulfill our privilege and duty—to further understand and improve the most sophisticated power in the world, the human mind.
Acknowledgements
Margaret Boden¹4 for encouraging me to publish my thesis research in book form. Aaron Sloman¹5 for encouraging me to continue my research on the intersection of cognition and affect in 2008. Thanks to Ian Hand (General Manager, VentureLabs), John Siu (Director of Engineering, In Motion Technology), Paul Terry (Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SFU Venture Labs), and Renwei Li (Senior Director, Software Engineering at Huawei) for permission to refer to them personally in this book.
I am deeply indebted to the countless authors who have shaped my thinking, whether or not I have quoted them in this book.
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Introduction
- Broad cognitive science
Alas, the "shallow", intellectual defeatism, naïve optimism, and cognitive miserliness each in its own way threaten our quest for knowledge- and technology-based effectiveness. In the spirit of the people to whose memory this book is dedicated, I reject cognitive defeatism in favor of informed and productive ways of using technology to improve ourselves. Between brain and behavior exist complex virtual machines - "minds".³ Mapping mental phenomena with brain mechanisms is a challenging task for scientists.
Yes, every time we learn a fact or a skill, the wiring of the brain changes; it is not as if the information is stored in the pancreas. In Chapter 3, I describe our cognitive productivity challenges so we can address them with the rest of the book. Such are the beliefs floating in the bubble above my cartoon of the intellectual macho.
I suspect that such cavalier attitudes and the superficial strategies they involve are the main causes of what Carr described as "the shallowness." These are the goals of the framework I wanted to describe in this book; these are the standards by which I would like to judge this book.
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Index
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