Australia’s Computerworld jumps on the futures bandwagon, and provides insight into the 21st century (in stark contrast to what others are writing on the future). In an interview with British Telecom futurist Ian Pearson, a few daring predictions emerged: 1. “Thinking” is going to seem very alien to many people: We will probably make conscious [...]
"The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."
-Attributed to William Gibson
Archive for October, 2007
Forbes divines the future, finds the 20th century
10/16/2007
Forbes is running a special report on “The Future.” From the opening comments: The truth is that people simply aren’t very good at predicting the future. It was only two centuries ago that we began to think we could do it at all, and we’re still learning. Hindsight may be 20/20, but foresight remains largely [...]
SimCity Societies introduces social modeling
10/13/2007
SimCity Societies, the latest release in the SimCity franchise, is due for release on November 13. The game integrates a social and cultural modeling component. Characteristics of each user-run SimCity is determined by the user through development of six social, cultural, and economic factors: productivity, prosperity, creativity, spirituality, authority, and knowledge. From EA: Featuring an [...]
Virtual worlds colliding
10/11/2007
Two interesting pieces of news emerged on virtual worlds: At the Virtual Worlds Conference, IBM and Linden Labs announced plans to develop a set of open standards that would allow avatars to traverse from one virtual environment to another. Multiverse Network is building tools that will allow virtual world developers to access and incorporate elements [...]
OLPC’s potential for revolution
10/6/2007
An element missing from media coverage of the One Laptop per Child XO is the ramifications of using mesh networking. This scheme allows for data to be passed through individual machines acting as nodes, where data hops from machine-to-machine until its destination on the network –or on a foreign network is reached. This allows for [...]
OLPC XO receives a positive review
10/5/2007
…from the New York Times: In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, [...]
Planet 2.0 meets the USA
10/4/2007
This has been a quiet blogging week due to FLACSO México‘s visit to the University of Minnesota. The visit has been very busy, and highly productive. This morning, Education Futures contributor Dr. Cristóbal Cobo (read his blog) presented his ideas at a University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Digital Technology Center research [...]
¡Viva el español!
10/1/2007
Education Futures has been receiving many visitors from Latin America –particularly from Mexico. To help make the site more accessible, I added a Traducir al español link to the sidebar.
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University of St. Thomas needs a new president
A little side commentary on the University of St. Thomas, where I got my Master of International Management degree. In recent years, the school has made decisions to bring in radical extremist speakers such as Ann Coulter (and physically silence any students with challenging questions) and ban more-progressive speakers such as Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu [...]