An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota: Education and the Technological Singularity January 27, 2010 11:30am – 1:30pm 250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank) At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as [...]

Got development ideas for the digital world? The OECD is willing to engage in a dialog by video. The organization’s press release says it all: OECD – Paris, 29 May 2008 OECD and YouTube launch “Future of the Internet” initiative “How can the Internet make the world a better place?” This is the question OECD [...]

[Cross-posted from e-rgonomic] Passport of skills for a knowledge worker: Not restricted to a specific age. Highly engaged, creative, innovative, collaborative and motivated. Uses information and develops knowledge in changing workplaces (not tied to an office). Inventive, intuitive, and able to know things and produce ideas. Capable of creating socially constructed meaning and contextually reinvent [...]

Two articles surfaced recently regarding Second Life. First, CNN reports that over 60 educational organizations are using Second Life to explore how to promote learning in the virtual world. Whereas there is a concern that mainstay online education providers do not provide a sense of community or social interaction, virtual, three-dimensional online communities may fill [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Minneapolis, February 20, 2006) – Arthur Harkins and John Moravec today released action steps they believe the University of Minnesota should take to become one of the world’s top three public research universities within the coming decade. Their effort is independent of the University’s official strategic repositioning process.  It is intended to [...]