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22 Sep 09

YouTube - Information R/evolution

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

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YouTube - Did You Know?

Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman, remixed.

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Clay Shirky talks about TV watching, Wikipedia, and where all the time comes from, or goes to.

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  • So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit,
    all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit,
    every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia
    exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100
    million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but
    it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of
    thought.
  • The Internet-connected population watches roughly a
    trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the
    annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that  is 100 Wikipedia projects per year
    worth of participation.
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13 Sep 09

Library services for the future | Teemu Arina

Visually stunning presentation on the real-time web and its consequences for the library of the future.

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10 Sep 09

What is the Future of Teaching?

  • According to the New York Times Bits blog, a recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments.
  • “In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages,” writes the authors of the report (emphasis theirs). “At the same time, one should note that online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is face-to-face instruction.”
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12 Aug 08

Ron Cooke: The Perfect (Economic) Storm | Global Public Media

US economic future looks grim, with high oil prices, a decimated financial system, Iran situation and political theology combine to for the perfect storm.

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16 Jun 08

Are Arctic Sea Ice Melts Causing Sea Levels to Rise?: Scientific American

  • he year-round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years
  • all of the year-round ice in the Arctic could be gone by as early as 2030
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05 Feb 08

Unquiet Ice Speaks Volumes on Global Warming: Scientific American

Good article on the rapid changes on the polar ice regions and what that might mean for civilization.

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10 Nov 07

The End of Oil is Upon Us. We Must Move On - Quickly. | Autopia from Wired.com

The official confirmation: International Energy Agency says that oil is running out. No more ambiquity.

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25 Sep 07

Half an Hour: Ten Futures

A better prediction of future trends, with a link to a more traditional one.

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