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• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Thanks Selina! Vice versa.

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Well, if we get sci-fi for a moment, and I feel wholeheartedly what anyone else, world wide might feel. Then how do I cope everytime someone's mother dies, if I feel like it's my mother? How do we not grind to an emotive hault? Now this is a bit tongue in cheek, and certainly not our problem a the moment. I wish we had this problem...

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Hi Augie, I like your thinking here, and I suspect you're on point. Question though, where do you get that 99% figure? From any study in particular? Curious...

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: I am truly terrified when I read literally anything from the 18th or 19th century. The level of literacy and deduction, though not shared by a majority of people at the time, is stunning when compared with what seems to be the idea innovators and commentators in our age — with exceptions of course.
  
  But, might we be a much more creative, if less literate, age? I'd wager yes. How do we raise both bars...

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Sure, I've traveled a ton with just a handful of hand gesture, and a ton of patience and time. But I could never be particularly interesting, or funny — and I always felt so frustrated at the fact that here I was, in the presence of people who I'll never likely meet again, and I just can't ask the questions I want to ask... Still, there's something so fundamental about realizing that you don't need to talk to have a pretty great time with strangers...
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  A comment on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Time for an odd question: Let’s say the world was given an empathy grade by some intergallactic intelligent friends. What would you guess that grade might be, and do you think we have a good chance of improving it next, uh, semester?

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: have you seen any attempt out there at defining the terms of this etiquette? this is fun, though not exactly what we're talking about: http://eetiquette.com/

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: I can't even begin to comprehend what universal language translation would portend. My mind is blown just thinking about it.

• A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: I will check out Jane, in that case.
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  A reply on Conversation: How can creatives use new technologies to increase empathy across cultural and geographic distances?

  Nov 18 2011: Hey Arne, just caught this post from earlier. I entirely agree with you here. Just like HBO revitalized what TV could be for an audience that had largely given up on it — and also sparked a bunch of competitors to raise the level of their offerings — I wonder when some game visionary will create an interactive experience that is much more than entertainment. This may exist, and I just don't know of it....