I sent an email out to a few folks with a short question: Which trend will have the greatest impact on education in the 21st century? [ ] Globalization [ ] Rise of the knowledge society [ ] Accelerating change [ ] Other: _______ The results will be posted below as I receive them. If [...]

Games as Expert Systems It seems like common sense to assume that the best way to learn something is to work one-on-one with an expert. Unfortunately, many of these experts are busy using their expertise in important projects at the Louvre, saving lives, winning Nobel prizes, and putting out fires—and sometimes a great expert is [...]

I am developing the following ideas with George Kubik and John Moravec. We welcome any feedback you might have. To date, divisions of past, present, and future have been a necessary condition for a paradigm of futures research. We assert that the futures research field must progress beyond traditional assumptions and categories of past, present [...]

Matthew Hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the One Laptop Per Child’s fourth production prototype of the $100 laptop initiative at SIGGRAPH 2007: (Video by Leonardo Bonanni of hyperexperience.com)

In an interview with Silicon.com, William Gibson declares that he’s given up on envisioning futures: We hit a point somewhere in the mid-18th century where we started doing what we think of technology today and it started changing things for us, changing society. Since World War II it’s going literally exponential and what we are [...]