No Time to Think Workshop

虽然最新的信息技术使我们能够比以往任何时候都更快地相互交流和获取信息，但现在很明显，这些强大的能力也造成了信息过载、极度忙碌和注意力分散，以及加速甚至疯狂的工作和生活模式。这种趋势最不幸的后果之一是失去了思考和沉思的时间？失去了思考的时间。这笔资金将用于部分支持将于6月16日至17日在西雅图华盛顿大学校园举行的约100人参加的研讨会，以探索一些重要文化机构的这种现象，并提出可能的应对和补救措施。来自各行各业的专业人士将被邀请参加，并回答以下问题：缺乏思考的时间对您的工作有何影响？它对您的业务、机构或企业有何影响？你认为对你、你的工作和整个社会有什么潜在的、更大的或长期的后果？您(或您的企业、机构或企业)了解这种情况吗？你正在采取哪些积极的措施来改善它？可能/应该采取哪些进一步措施？这次为期两天的活动将于6月16日星期一晚上开始，来自不同行业和各行各业的演讲者将参加。它将在6月17日星期二继续举行，分组讨论将允许所有与会者以专业和个人的方式谈论失去思考时间的影响。分组讨论之后将举行几个平行轨道讲习班，从不同的角度审查问题和/或潜在的解决办法。最后，闭幕全体会议将讨论下一步可能采取的具体步骤。参与者将从两个主要群体中选出：代表一些主要职业和各行各业的人，他们的工作因失去思考时间而受到负面影响(例如，律师、法官、医生、护士、卫生保健管理员、印刷和广播记者、K-12教师和学校管理人员、大学教职员工和管理人员、公司领导人和中层管理人员、高科技工作者、政府雇员、不同信仰的宗教领袖、艺术家和家庭主妇)，以及来自一些学科的研究人员，他们的学术研究与失去思考时间的问题有关(例如，计算机和信息科学、哲学、心理学、社会学、技术、神经科学和医学史)。该讲习班是2004年5月在西雅图举办的信息、沉默和庇护所讲习班和2006年3月在华盛顿特区举办的专心工作和技术讲习班的后续活动，这两个讲习班都是由国际和平研究所组织的，部分资金由国家科学基金会提供。与该系列的前两次活动一样，目前研讨会的额外资金预计将来自麦克阿瑟基金会。广泛影响：国际和平协会的目标是提高公众对研讨会主题的认识，并鼓励对这些主题的广泛讨论。为此目的，将在讲习班网站上向公众提供开幕讨论会的录音和录像，以及关于讲习班的简要录像和书面报告。PI还计划与西雅图(KUOW)的当地NPR分支机构接洽，让他们有兴趣转播开幕式小组讨论，就像他们为2004年5月的研讨会所做的那样。

While the latest information technologies have made it possible for us to communicate with one another and to gain access to information more quickly than ever before, it is now clear that these powerful capabilities are also contributing to information overload, extreme busyness, and the fragmentation of attention, as well as to accelerated and even frantic modes of working and living. One of the most unfortunate consequences of this trend is the loss of time for reflection and contemplation?the loss of time to think. This is funding to partially support a workshop of about 100 participants that will be held June 16-17 on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, to explore this phenomenon across a number of significant cultural institutions, and to suggest possible responses and remedies. Professionals from a number of walks of life will be invited to participate and to address questions such as: How does the lack of time to think affect you in your work? How is it affecting your business, institution, or enterprise? What do you see as potential larger or long-term consequences to you, to your work, and to the larger society? Are you (or is your business, institution, or enterprise) aware of the situation? What positive steps are you taking to ameliorate it? What further steps might / should be taken? This 2-day event will begin the evening of Monday, June 16 with a panel of speakers drawn from various professions and walks of life. It will continue on Tuesday, June 17 with breakout groups that will allow all attendees to speak professionally and personally about the effects of the loss of time to think. The breakout groups will be followed by several parallel-track workshops that will examine the problem and/or potential solutions from a variety of perspectives. Finally, a closing plenary session will discuss possible concrete next steps. Participants will be selected from two main groups: people representing a number of major professions and walks of life whose work is negatively affected by the loss of time to think (e.g., lawyers, judges, physicians, nurses, health care administrators, print and broadcast journalists, K-12 teachers and school administrators, university faculty and administrators, corporate leaders and middle managers, high-tech workers, government employees, religious leaders of various faiths, artists, and homemakers), and researchers from a number of disciplines whose scholarship is relevant to the problem of the loss of time to think (e.g., computer and information science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history of technology, neuroscience, and medicine). This workshop constitutes a follow-on to the Workshop on Information, Silence, and Sanctuary which was held in Seattle in May of 2004, and the Workshop on Mindful Work and Technology which was held in Washington DC in March of 2006, both of which were organized by the PI with partial funding provided by NSF. As with the previous two events in the series, additional funding for the current workshop is expected to come from the MacArthur Foundation.Broader Impacts: The PI's goal is to raise public awareness of the workshop topics and to stimulate broad discussion of them. To these ends, audio and videotape recordings of the opening panel, as well as a summary videotape regarding the workshop and a written report, will be made available to the public on the workshop website. The PI also plans to approach the local NPR affiliate in Seattle (KUOW) to interest them in broadcasting the opening panel discussion, as they did for the May 2004 workshop.