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Where do the best ideas come from? And how do we apply these ideas to the biggest shared challenges of our age, from rising obesity to terrorism and climate change?
Best-selling author and columnist Matthew Syed visits the RSA to offer a radical blueprint for the future: one that challenges hierarchies, encourages constructive dissent and forces us to think again about how success really happens.
Offering insights to strengthen individual, team and institutional performance, Syed draws upon cutting-edge research in psychology, economics and anthropology, and takes lessons from a range of case studies, including the catastrophic intelligence failings of the CIA before 9/11, a communication breakdown at the top of Mount Everest and a moving tale of deradicalisation in America's Deep South.
Join us at the RSA to learn how success today is no longer just about talent, or knowledge or skill. It is also about freeing ourselves from the blind spots that beset us all, and harnessing a critical new ingredient: cognitive diversity.
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Hi Daveed,
Thanks for your comment – I’m a member of the Public Events team here at the RSA. It’s super interesting to see the efforts you’re making to connect and build knowledge via Bridgeit.
We will be filming today’s event and it will be available to watch at your convenience online for 1 month on our YouTube channel so you won’t have to miss out on Matt’s talk and the conversation - hope you enjoy it and find it useful for your work!
Hi Matthew & RSA
Will this be taped? I would love to participate but it's quite early for Oakland, CA.
I am interested in having conversation about how computers can support diverse thinking.
I had the initial thought of that has turned into Bridgit 5 years ago. I was wanting to create the possibility of long term conversations about things that matter on the Internet. I observed that conversations on the Internet seemed to have a half life of a couple days at most. Reddit which seemed to have the most structured conversations (albeit not sufficiently in my mind), actually archived their threads after 6 months. I thought that there should be a place that anyone could go for every subject, with any level of understanding of the area, and get a high level understanding of the issues/inquiries. They should then be able to go a deep and technical as they wanted to investigate the different perspectives, claims, evidence, and data sources. And if they found a relevant piece fo information, it should be readily apparent where it should be posted, and when so, everyone in the thread should be notified that new information has been added to the conversation. Obviously a pie in the sky.
I decided that rather than jump into conversations and wisdom, I'd temper my overreaching tendencies and just focus Bridgit on re-building the world's knowledge base. I began to think about how we might reorganize the information on the web and I started thinking about connections in the web and connections in our brain.
Bridgit has developed into a system that incentivizes people to build bridges (i.e., conceptual links between online ideas with expressed relationships) that aggregate into a universal knowledge map. The knowledge map (or graph) can provide a 360 contextual view for any idea on the web - including all of the supporting, conflicting, and citing information.
Hence, I am very bullish about the possibility of Bridgit supporting diverse thinking.