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How Perceptions Are Made Look at the image below. To try to make sense of the black and white blobs, your brain sifts through its library of experiences, looking for something it has encountered before that matches or nearly matches what it is currently looking at. If your brain can’t find a match, you are
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Once the students answered the question, he then asked this:…”
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ME: Listen. Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.
The article discusses the broader impact of software as a technological medium by examining the nature of technology adoption processes. The divide in the world of technology is between those who believe humans are capable of significant change, and those who believe they are not. Tension between these two philosophies leads to a technology diffusion process characterized by a colloquial phrase "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". The article argues that once a major technology possibility is identified, it is invariably exploited in ways that maximally unleashes its potential.