Cherishing Cognition w/ Mickey McManus

From Wednesday, April 24th at Make School, SF
What if we are standing at the crossroads of a new silent spring driven by technologies that create industrial scale cognitive waste akin to the pervasive toxic waste that wreaks havoc on our environment? Is strip-mining our curiosity, creativity & executive function killing off our capacity to cope with the today’s complex challenges? Are design patterns that amplify biases part of the underlying method to this madness?
It is time to wake up and realize that human cognitive diversity matters. Would it be possible to cherish cognition by redirecting design patterns to cancel rather than amplify biases and build rather than destroy cognitive capacity? How might machine learning help?
On Wednesday, April 24th, join human-centered design pioneer Mickey McManus to dive deeper into these important questions. In this event, Mickey will facilitate small group co-creation activities to help us explore cognitive biases, shortcuts, ways to tune them, and the broader implications for ourselves, our communities and our civilization.
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Mickey McManus is a pioneer in pervasive computing, collaborative human/machine innovation, human-centered design and education. His current research is at the intersection of automation, cognitive capacity, biases and meta-cognition. Mickey was the president, CEO, and chairman of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 with a mission of taming complexity. Currently, he is a senior advisor to BCG and a visiting research fellow at Autodesk's Office of the CTO. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology, which serves as a field guide to the future, where devices outnumber people and computing will be freely accessible in the ambient environment.

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