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Business of Learning : eLearning Technology
This is a very strange time. While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning, the business of learning faces an incredibly difficult time. In the past few weeks, I've had some really eye-opening conversations ab
The future of TV can be seen at New Fiction
On Saturday Night, I saw first-hand why the TV networks might be one of the casualties of the Future of TV. Instead of watching Prime Time TV that night, Cindy and I decided to log onto Xbox Live to play 1 vs 100.
Why NPR is the Future of Mainstream Media
Compared to cable news, where most networks are shedding viewers, and newspapers, where circulation continues to plummet, NPR is starting to look like they have the future of news all figured out. Or at least, they appear to doing a lot better at it than
Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. Publishers and author advocates have generally refused to put books online for fear the content will be Napsterized. And you can underst
Smithsonian Voice Your Vision Project
The Smithsonian Institution wants your POV as we begin to imagine our future. Submit a video with your vision and ideas. We're looking for a few friends and fans from around the world to help us form the future Smithsonian experience. A revolutionary Web
Plastic Logic Product
Plastic Logic is using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of products enabling information access, organization, and consumption. Differentiated by a stunning form factor (the size of 8.5 x 11-inch paper), the P
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone
Hyperland
Hyperland is a 50 minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies written by Douglas Adams and produced by BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams already had worked on Doctor Who
Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter
Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us.
Yale computer scientist David Gelernter entered the public mind one morning in January '92 when The New York Sunday Times ra
The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information - ReadWriteWeb
In the coming years, we will see a revolution in the ability of machines to access, process, and apply information. This revolution will emerge from three distinct areas of activity connected to the Semantic Web: the Web of Data, the Web of Services, and
The Engelbart Mural
Featured at the 40th anniversary celebrations of Douglas C. Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos", this 4-foot by 27-foot mural traces the evolution of culture and technology from 1925 to present, from the perspective of the life of Doug Engelbart, inventor o
Presentation: From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able
from the Educause Learning Initiatives conference in Orlando. This presentation is part self-critique and part extension of my earlier “Portal to Media Literacy” presentation:
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ways they never imagined. The future is here and it's i
Augmented Reality Devices: See the Online World While Walking the Real One
That sounds pretty far fetched, but we’re not that far off from such a world. Take, for example, the announcement by Vuzix of their new Wrap 920AV pair of sunglasses with both Virtual Reality and AR capabilities. The device comes with a 60 inch virtual sc
Our trend map for 2009: The vital Trends, Risks, and Red Herrings you must know - Trends in the Living Networks
Following our extremely popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 trend maps comes…. Trend Blend 2009!
Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com, the 2009 trend map moves on from the subway map them
Internet of Things - Wikipedia
In computing, the Internet of Things refers to a, usually wireless and self-configuring, wireless network between objects, such as household appliances. If all cans, books, shoes or parts of cars are equipped with minuscule identifying devices, daily life
Streetline
Streetline is a complete information system designed specifically for applications in urban resource management. Our platform integrates ultra-low power sensing with web-based solutions that you can use to simplify management right away, or customize to s
Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems
Current systems used in follow a consistent design pattern, one that is not supportive of lifelong or personalization, is asymmetric in terms of user capability, and which is disconnected from the global ecology of Internet services. In this paper we prop
Who will Preserve Your Digital Data? - ReadWriteWeb
According to a 2008 IDC white paper, 2007 marked the "crossover" year, when there was more digital data created than data storage to host it. The IDC report also projected that by 2011 the amount of digital data created will be more than twice the amount
2008 School of the Future World Summit
For the past three years, education leaders from around the world have gathered to debate and discuss issues and challenges facing our education systems.
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