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In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero
“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
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“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
Digital guru Clay Shirky's media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian
A self-confessed 'pretty unlikely early adopter', the digital guru Clay Shirky still proved to be uncannily prescient about the impact of the web - which is why Tom Teodorczuk is getting his media forecast for 2009
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A self-confessed 'pretty unlikely early adopter', the digital guru Clay Shirky still proved to be uncannily prescient about the impact of the web - which is why Tom Teodorczuk is getting his media forecast for 2009
Seven Questions
Stephen Downes answers seven questions on the nature of learning and the education system.
Why Educational Change is Hard - Practical Theory
There's a lot of frustration about NECC, the EduBloggerCon and where this community of edubloggers is going right now.
AirCar - runs on compressed air
One refueling with 340 l of air under pressure will cost approximately 2 USD and will assure autonomy for more than 1000 km at the speed 100 km/h. The price for such a car is estimating to be 17800 USD.
SKYHOOK Wireless
The Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) from Skyhook Wireless is the world's first location platform to use the native 802.11 radio already on mobile devices to deliver accurate positioning worldwide.
SlideRocket - Create, Manage, and Share Presentations on the Web
SlideRocket has everything you’d expect from a presentation app — powerful slide and presentation authoring tools, pretty transitions and image and video manipulations and animations, charting and table creation, and the ability to import PowerPoint f
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?
Well, we do have flat-screen computers you can write on that fit in a briefcase, but I’m still waiting to take my 250 MPH car to a business meeting in another domed city. Perhaps by the end of the year.
Bill Gates: Testimony before the House of Reps
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we are adding over 100,000 new computer-related jobs each year. But only 15,000 students earned bachelor's degrees in computer science and engineering in 2006 and that number continues to drop.
Why bother having a resume?
Here's why: A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, I can say, "oh, they're missing this or they're missing that," and boom, you're out.
Gartner's top 10 IT predictions for 2008 and beyond
Apple will double its market share for computers in the United States and Western Europe by 2011. "Apple's gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple's success,"
It's a Mac! It's a PC! It's ... Both?
The tantalizing possibility of running both Mac and PC software on a single Apple computer has inspired some IT managers to think about ways to save costs and avoid purchasing different types of computers for different software needs.
oxford internet institute | webcasts of the Internet pioneers, scholars and regulators
Webcasts covering areas such as: social media, internet regulation, safety and security online, e-government and democracy, civil society, open access, e-learning, citizen journalism, and the future of the Internet itself.
A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema
A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members
Weblogg-ed » Pocket Texting and Open Phone Tests
From the “So What Do We Do About This?” Department comes a story about the tech savvyness of one 14-year old South Korean youngster who is making his phone play an important part in his education.
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World [OCLC - Membership reports]
The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location
The Mobile Journalism Toolkit contents - Reuters Mobile Journalism
This is a Nokia N95 which now comes in three different versions.
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME
A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants
Below is a science fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In it she took filered water and divided it into two parts.
Digital Nativism, Digital Delusions and Digital Deprivation.
Being born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
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