Posts Tagged ‘ Accelerating Change ’

Top ten list #7: Ways U.S. education is failing to produce creatives

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6/26/2007

Today’s list discusses how U.S. education is failing to create students that will succeed in creative, knowledge- and innovation-based economies. Not surprisingly, No Child Left Behind heads-off this list as failure #1: No Child Left Behind. NCLB is producing exactly the wrong products for the 21st Century, but is right on for the 1850′s through [...]


Top ten signs the “Singularity is near”

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6/19/2007

As we stated in yesterday’s top ten list, human-surpassing intelligence will guarantee that the future is far more different than we can imagine. Our second top ten list plays off ideas from Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near, Hans Moravec’s Mind children and Robot, and the work of Vernor Vinge. Onward Singularitarians! Accelerating returns: S-curves [...]


The Singularitarians of Penzance

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5/16/2007

From the “silly but good” department… View This Video on You Tube


My final defense

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4/6/2007

My final defense defense starts in 2 seconds…! Here are my PowerPoint slides, via SlideShare:


Un paso hacia los nuevos paradigmas de la educación

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3/9/2007

My 12 March 2007 presentation for FLACSO Mexico is now available at SlideShare: Very special thanks goes to Gemma Punti for translating the slides! Additional gratitude goes to Giovanna Valenti, Benjamin Temkin, Cristobal Cobo and Arlene Arciniega for organizing the event.


Call for papers: Global Leapfrog Education

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9/3/2006

Call for papers Global Leapfrog Education Volume 2, Number 1 – March 2006 (Submissions are due November 30, 2006) Global Leapfrog Education (GLE), a new, open access journal, is devoted to exploring how, through education and human capital development, communities can transcend current problems and challenges by empowering themselves with the tools to invent their [...]


New Scientist: Emerging dark age of innovation

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7/2/2005

New Scientist’s Robert Adler writes: “…we are fast approaching a new dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon’s Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. [...]


Kurzweil: The singularity is near

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4/22/2005

Here is a book to watch out for: The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil, to be released in September, 2005. The following information is cut-and-pasted from Amazon.com‘s description of the volume: Product Details Hardcover: 624 pages Publisher: Viking Adult (September 22, 2005) ISBN: 0670033847 Book Description The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is [...]


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Change is accelerating: Get ready!

Change is the theme of this week, and we open with a reminder from Ray Kurzweil that change is accelerating. Last week, the New York Times’ John Tierney published an interview with Kurzweil on accelerating change: Now, [Kurzweil] sees biology, medicine, energy and other fields being revolutionized by information technology. His graphs [of accelerating technological [...]


Designing education for sustainable innovation

Presented at the JTET conference this morning: Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA) John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA) University of Minnesota Abstract This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation [...]


Technology Evangelist: Kurzweil at Killer App Expo

The folks at the Technology Evangelist blog did a remarkable job in recording Ray Kurzweil‘s talk at the Killer App Expo and feeding video to the net. Benjamin J. Higginbotham writes: Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App [...]


Ray Kurzweil to appear on C-SPAN

Ray Kurzweil is going to be interactively live on C-SPAN2′s “Book TV” this coming Sunday from 1100-1400 CST. Here is the blurb from this morning’s NYT: “Join us for a live conversation with Ray Kurzweil, author of several books about artificial intelligence, including The Age of Spiritual Machines, and his latest, The Singularity is Near: [...]


The “great Singularity debate”

ZDNet is running a blog story on the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. Particular attention in the article is focused on the debate between Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Hofstader on utopian versus dystopian futures: Kurzweil acknowledged that Singularity could lead to an unappealing or cataclysmic future, but he believes his vision will have a soft [...]


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