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沟通和获取信息，但现在很清楚，这些强大的能力也导致了信息过载、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反思和沉思的时间。失去思考的时间。这笔资金部分用于支持将于6月16日至17日在西雅图华盛顿大学校园举行的一个约有100名参与者的研讨会，该研讨会将探讨一些重要文化机构中的这一现象，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：缺乏思考时间对你的工作有何影响？它是如何影响你的业务、机构或企业的？你认为对你、对你的工作、对更大的社会有什么潜在的更大的或长期的影响？你（或你的公司、机构或企业）意识到这种情况了吗？你采取了哪些积极的措施来改善它？可能/应该采取哪些进一步的措施？这个为期两天的活动将于6月16日星期一晚上开始，届时将有来自各行各业的演讲者。6月17日（周二），会议将继续进行分组讨论，让所有与会者就失去思考时间的影响进行专业和个人的讨论。分组之后将有几个平行的研讨会，从不同的角度审视问题和/或潜在的解决方案。最后，闭幕全体会议将讨论今后可能采取的具体步骤。参加者将从两个主要组别中选出：代表许多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、卫生保健管理人员、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、企业领导和中层管理人员、高科技工人、政府雇员、各种信仰的宗教领袖、艺术家和家庭主妇）；以及来自多个学科的研究人员，他们的学术研究与思考时间缺失问题有关（例如，计算机和信息科学、哲学、心理学、社会学、技术史、神经科学和医学）。这次研讨会是继2004年5月在西雅图举行的“信息、沉默和庇护”研讨会和2006年3月在华盛顿举行的“正念工作和技术”研讨会之后的又一次研讨会，这两次研讨会都是由PI组织的，部分资金由NSF提供。与该系列的前两次活动一样，本次研讨会的额外资金预计将来自麦克阿瑟基金会。更广泛的影响：PI的目标是提高公众对研讨会主题的认识，并激发对这些主题的广泛讨论。为此，将在讲习班网站上向公众提供开幕式小组的录音和录像带，以及讲习班的总结录像带和书面报告。PI还计划与西雅图当地的NPR分支机构（KUOW）接触，让他们有兴趣播放开幕式小组讨论，就像他们在2004年5月的研讨会上所做的那样。

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.