Adam Good
Object-Oriented Thought: Principle. Practice. Prophecy.
Thoughts are objects. This simple statement has profound implications for how we think and create. For when we treat thoughts as objects, they become tangible, identifiable, divisible, adaptable, re-usable, and, shareable. They become like the modular code that makes object-oriented programming so powerful, or like the snippets of beat, melody, and hook that form the backbone of mash-ups. The concept of object-orientation has already revolutionized fields as diverse as software design and music. It's time for a similar revolution in the fields and practices of thought itself.
My talk will outline: what object-oriented thought is (the PRINCIPLE), how it can be applied (the PRACTICE), and where it may take us as a culture (the PROPHECY).
About Adam Good:
Adam Good is a writer and performance researcher from Washington, DC. He explores the concept of object-oriented thought (and related concerns) through avant-garde poetic techniques, improv performance, and diagramming, with in-roads to application design, cognitive theory, and knowledge management. He presents his findings at TheRealAdamGood.com. He thinks that post-it notes are the greatest advance in knowledge technology since the printing press. He tweets his thoughts on thought via @asgood. When not thinking about thought, he thinks about creative strategy at Threespot Media.
