Collaboration and communication help us understandtheworld around us better than simply sucking up information from one-way sources such as the textbook and chalk-and-talk teacher.
Jung argues that, in addition to our personal unconscious (a unique personalised psychic dumping ground for all our experiences, anxieties, neuroses and repressed thoughts) we all also share the same template in the form of archetypes, which help us understand and explain theworld in which we live.
Madison Avenue players and some big marketers still believe that traditional ad agencies can help them understand new technology and navigate the new media world.
To understand which applications might be the right choice, you have to understandthe questions you want to answer to help your business but also the fundamental model of theworld that is at the center of the applications you are considering.
From the coins on which James I is depicted as a Roman emperor to a huge tapestry of Warwickshire (commissioned by a man with land and connections), these artefacts shaped the way people perceived theworld, and help historians to understand what they saw.
We have new software that can help poor countries understandthe fragmentation of their trade but UN Comtrade (the world's trade database) is still hoarding bulk data.
The framework Oh provided, was a big help to me in understanding where we are in the process of making big data a part of the way we understandtheworld.