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The Globe and Mail
“Sting isn’t like most of us.
We’re not talking about his journey from agitated blond guy watching every breath you take, every move you make, to age-defying singer-bassist with yoga mat in hand. No, what makes him so different, and one of the world’s most popular musicians, are a few tiny brain cells in the back of his head.
Sting has “these very focal, very clear and pointed activations in the visual cortex,” says McGill University neuroscientist Daniel Levitin. “That’s unique to him, and that’s surprising and, I happen to think, kind of sexy.”
Few people other than a brain researcher would consider Sting’s head scans sexy. What Levitin (famous for two bestselling books on the human brain and music) is referring to is the elegant concentration of activity in Sting’s visual cortex when the musician composes melodies.
For most people, the visual cortex usually fires up when they are watching music being performed. But for Sting, it’s also active when he’s composing.
As shown in the documentary The Musical Brain, based on Levitin’s books and airing tonight at 7 o’clock on CTV, professional musicians tend to show less scattered activity when thinking about music…”
Technologizer/ Rod Bauer
“I’m an Early Adopter. I like to be among the first to try out new products and services. If you were looking for me on the Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle—the bell-shaped curve that’s a favorite of product managers—you’d find me on left side of the curve, just after the truly courageous Innovators but before the onset of the rabble of the Early Majority.
Being an early adopter means that sometimes I’ve been left in the lurch when a product or service I adopted early failed or was pulled inexplicably from the market. Were you also a user of Pownce, Yahoo Photos, or Google Notebook? Everything has a natural lifecycle, of course, and I have to expect that some of the products I (perhaps too eagerly) embraced will not survive. Since I’m an early adopter, I’m likely to see more products and services fail than other people, who are a bit more conservative and are located farther to the right on the Rogers curve, maybe in Late Majority or even Laggards.
Recently, however, we’ve seen some products seemingly abandoned by their creators. These vendors have just stopped talking to their customers. As you might guess, this is a bad sign. I compare this to a relationship. Early on, your boyfriend or girlfriend tells you everything about themselves—what they like to eat, their favorite songs, their dreams and the minutiae of their daily lives. Later, if things aren’t working out, you’re lucky to hear if they decide not to show up for a date.
I eagerly purchased the…”
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