I am a strong proponent for visual education. I also think that complex things can be better explained by visual scribbles, graphics, images. It's (scribbles, images) something I try to use a lot during talks and meetings.

Mihai Nadin On Anticipatory Systems

UBIQUITY: How would begin to think about the design of a perfect program for undergraduates?

NADIN: I tend to like a renaissance program in which the liberal component and the science component are completely integrated. I'm still dreaming and hoping that I will find a university some place, even if it's on the moon, where people will notice that although we all have eyes, not everyone sees, and therefore it is time to provide for "visual education." Everyone in such a university who wants to become a doctor, or engineer, or even an accountant, would learn what it means to really see and what it means to express oneself visually. This will add a fundamental dimension to language and music education. The visual has been woefully neglected in our approach to education. That needs to be corrected, especially in the new age of visual acquisition of knowledge aided by computation. Some of our more interesting anticipations are definitely related to the visual.

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