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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
Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games | Stars and Stripes
The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat.
Lt. Col. Gary Stephens, product manager for air and ground tactical trainers at Project Executive Offi
CNN quakes as Twitter rapid fires Mumbai news » VentureBeat
It’s one thing when a couple dozen or so tech blogs rally around the idea that Twitter is an excellent source for the quick dissemination of news in the time of crisis — many of us have been trumpeting this fact for months if not longer — but its another
IBM Press room - 2008-11-25 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States
Unveiled today, the third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years:
* Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and wi
IBM: Talking Web Will be Commonplace in 5 Years - ReadWriteWeb
Every year IBM releases a "Next Five in Five" list, a list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". This is the third such list, and it mentions a "Talking Web" among the 5 items. You
Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning Project Summary
The Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning (HDUL) project, funded by Harvard’s Provost and under the guidance of Professor Chris Dede, sought to determine how wireless handheld devices (WHDs) –– which include, but are not limited to, cellphones, persona
a shel of my former self: Comments
A utopian vision has emerged in which every expression of human endeavor once conveyed via physical media is transformed into digital media. Micro Persuasion blogger Steve Rubel, a vice president at Edelman, has bet that “by January 2014...in the US almos
Nielsen - Press Release: Americans Can’t Get Enough Of Their Screen Time
The Nielsen Company announced today in its second “A2/M2 Three Screen Report” that U.S. usage of TV, Internet and Mobile – the Three Screens – continues to increase. As of third quarter 2008, the average person in the U.S. watched approximately 142 hours
TeachStreet | Find Local Teachers, Learn New Things
At the core, it's a user-driven social networking and class review site, designed to help bring students and teachers together. We've created a community where anyone who loves to learn can find a class that's perfect for them, and where teachers of all s
HistoGrafica - Picture the Past
HistoGrafica is a community-driven website with high aims - making a large amount of historical pictures easily accessible in one place on the web. Everyone can share and describe their old pictures on HistoGrafica and help expand this free archive. Toget
Open Access
Open Access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.
bug.gd - Error Search and Collaboration
This site helps you search for errors that other people have encountered. Someone's bound to have run into your error before, right?
bug.gd was the first crowd-sourcing community created by Miracle Labs. ErrorHelp.com is the corporate version designed to
Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition - NYTimes.com
After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely giv
Africans and Their Mobiles, Part 1: Numbers and Usage Patterns - ReadWriteWeb
This post is the first in a two-part series about 1) the African mobile marketplace and how Africans utilize their mobile phones; and 2) how organizations are using social marketing to reach this highly mobile population for social change.
Beyond Current Horizons : Evaluating the Future of the UK’s Education System | Technology, children, schools and families
Beyond Current Horizons looks at the future of education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and respond to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve. What skills will children need for work? How might
Becta Government & partners - Research - Introduction - Emerging technologies for learning
Emerging technologies for learning' aims to help readers consider how emerging technologies may impact on education in the medium term. The publications are not intended to be a comprehensive review of educational technologies, but offer some highlights a
Learning Science Meets Game Design
Combining games and education for the benefit of both, bringing fantasy to reality.
edublogs: Looking two times the distance back to forecast the future
you need to look back twice as far back to see what's ahead. It might not be repeated, but the future will rhyme with it. If we peer back to the 1950s we see huge experimentation in mass media, in ways the television could be used, developed, enhanced. To
News Overview Inline Listing - MacArthur Foundation
Game playing is universal, diverse, often involves social interaction, and can cultivate teen civic engagement. The first national survey of its kind finds that virtually all American teens play computer, console, or cell phone games and that the gaming e
Game Theory Revisited: Third Places and the New Web
Online spaces such as Digg, World of Warcraft, and MySpace have been heralded as the new "third places" - venues that provide a sense of community beyond home and work. What does research into collaboration and game theory have to tell us about the potent
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