Word: interaction
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Because he wipes away Black Rock City each year, Harvey is able to plan civilizations based on how people actually interact--at least when they've got a week's vacation and a lot of money. His goal is to free people from passively consuming mass-marketed culture; the Internet, as he sees it, offers a medium through which to re-create communities. "People are culture-bearing beings, but culture is not going to break out where people are anonymous and thrown together in a mass," he says. "Cultural activities could disappear because they have been siphoned off to mass...
...interact as much as possible," he says. "We're here for the students. We're here for the protection of the school...
...Friday night--a woman undergraduate is hosting a party in her dorm room. It has gotten out of control. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and two House tutors arrive on the scene, but the host is too drunk to interact with the officers or control the situation...
...seems America's kids are spending far too much time in front of a screen and too little learning how to interact with other human beings. In a statement that probably left many in the high tech industry shuddering with fear, the Alliance called for a moratorium on computers in elementary school classrooms. The group calls instead on reading and creative group play to help students develop the skills they need in and out of school...
After four years of being constantly reminded that they have studied under the best teachers and have had the opportunity to interact with the most important leaders of their generation, the reality is that many Harvard undergraduates do go on to fill the corridors and climb the ladders of power. And who knows, one day a few of them may even be invited to speak to students at the world's most prestigious university...