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Notes on multiple speakers including Michael Crow, Neal Stephenson, and Steward Brand
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Envisioning the Future Panel, moderated by Neal Stephenson
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If you take somebody from 1900 and put them in the now, they would lack the vocabulary to describe the things around them.
How will Google affect the world? Vaidhyanathan’s new book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) (University of California Press), explores this question
Could be a good stimulus for class discussion -- come up with a 21st prediction?
"What sort of human existence is implied by the ongoing construction of a social brain; and, within the constraints of that brain, how much room is there to choose our fate?""
Moving speech to the UN about the future
This is the first chapter of a new book on the multi-nationalization of higher education and how it will change the future of academia.
Interesting questions about the past and future of what it means to be literate.
interesting statistics on exposure to words and how we are exposed to them.
An short slide show that provides some very interesting graphics based on statistical information about differences among the world's regions and countries.
Six weeks to change the future of humanity! An interactive game that students can participate in to model how the world will change. Explores issues of food safety and supply, politics, disease, crime, etc.
Two articles by Francis Heyligher related to information overload and how to deal with it. Probably too difficult for a "visions of the future reading", but good background for anyone teaching that topic
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Learning to Be
There is a second, perhaps even more significant, aspect of social learning. Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field. This involves acquiring the practices and the norms of established practitioners in that field or acculturating into a community of practice.
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