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  • 2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobiles

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    on 2009-10-01 and saved by 15 people

    • The idea of a single portable device that can make phone calls, take pictures,
      record audio and video, store data, music, and movies, and interact with the
      Internet — all of it — has become so interwoven into our lifestyles that it is
      now surprising to learn that someone does not carry one
    • In a marketplace that turns out 1.2 billion new phones each year, innovation is
      fluid and ever-present.
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  • 2009 Horizon Report » Four to Five Years: Smart Objects

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    on 2009-09-27 and saved by 5 people

    • mart objects can be used to digitally manage physical things, to track them throughout their lifespan, and to annotate them with descriptions, opinions, instructions, warranties, tutorials, photographs, connections to other objects, and any other kind of contextual information imaginable.
    • The vision for the future of smart object technology is a world of interconnected items in which the line between physical object and digital information is blurred
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  • 2009 Horizon Report » Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications

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    on 2009-09-27 and saved by 7 people

    • is that eventually it might be able to help people solve very difficult problems by presenting connections between apparently unrelated concepts, individuals, events, or things — connections that it would take many people many years to perceive, but that could become obvious through the kinds of associations made possible by semantic-aware applications
  • 2009 Horizon Report » Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything

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    on 2009-09-26 and saved by 11 people

    • Geolocation technology is not new, but it is now commonly available in a growing range of devices like mobile phones, cameras, and other handhelds; at the same time, the software tools we use every day are beginning to include features that make use of geolocative data
    • Mobile learners can receive context-aware information about nearby resources, points of interest, historical sites, and peers seamlessly, connecting all this with online information for just-in-time learning. Social networking tools for handheld and mobile devices or laptop computers can already suggest people or places that are nearby, or show media related to one’s location
  • 2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Cloud Computing

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    on 2009-09-25 and saved by 8 people

    • Development platforms layered onto the cloud infrastructure enable thin-client,
      web-based applications for image editing, word processing, social networking,
      and media creation. Many of us use the cloud, or cloud-based applications,
      without even being aware of it.
    • “The cloud” denotes any group of computers used in this way; it is not tied to a
      particular location or owner, though many companies have proprietary clouds.
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  • 2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch

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    on 2009-09-25 and saved by 37 people

    • In the first adoption horizon we find mobiles and cloud
      computing
      , both of which are already well established on many campuses —
      and still more organizations have plans in place to make use of these
      technologies in the coming months. Institutions at the leading edge of
      technology adoption are also already applying the two clusters of technologies
      we have placed on the mid-term horizon, geo-everything and the
      personal web
    • The two technologies placed on the far-term horizon, semantic-aware
      applications
      and smart objects, are not yet commonly found in an
      educational context, although research is being conducted in both areas and the
      rate of development seems to indicate that these topics are well worth watching
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  • 2009 Horizon Report » Executive Summary

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    on 2009-09-25 and saved by 20 people

    • The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project,
      a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe
      emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning,
      research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations
    • Each edition of the Horizon Report introduces six emerging technologies
      or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in learning-focused
      organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.
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