Techno-News Blog. The report offers little direct guidance for addressing the skills gap. However, it advised governments to “make talent strategy a key priority and take steps now to educate, train and upskill their existing workforces.” The consultancy also suggested that companies themselves recognize their responsibility to train workers. More...
Futurist Fears End of Innovation
Howard Rheingold warns listeners at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference that entrenched interests are beginning to try to put the brakes on innovation. "They would very much like to get us back to the days when there were three radio stations and one telephone company," he said. "We're going to have to fight to remain users and not be turned back into consumers." I think this is exactly right. More...
Fretting About the Future, Lost Liberty
Declan McCullough takes a "Don't worry, be happy" approach to the concerns expressed by participants in this conference about corporate media concentration and the consequent loss of privacy, but he is right to point to the equally pressing concern about intrusions by governments into the same ethical quagmire. More...
Hosting Futures
Jim Groom, bavatuesdays, 2018/05/25
I'm still in the mindset of "about what piloting a mashup of LAMP and Docker-container based hosting might look like." More...
The Gates Foundation And Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Want Your Ideas On The Future Of Education
Fast Company, Jim Shelton, 2018/05/11
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have opened a Request for Information (RFI) about work that can help increase student success in math, non-fiction writing, and "executive function (the skill set concerning memory, self-control, attention, and flexible thinking)" (I couldn't help but giggle a bit when I read the third one). More...
Looking Back with an Eye on the Future
Slides from Stephen Marsh's presentation in Moncton Friday, which I unfortunately missed. PPS format, which means it won't run in Firebird (ran fine in Internet Exploder). More...
By Joshua Kim. Eleven hours and 2 minutes is the time that it takes to listen to the audiobook version of God Save Texas. Those hours will be amongst the most enjoyable 11 hours you will spend this year. More...
By Doug Lederman. The study by the Commission on Creating the Next in Education offers a look at what the research university should be doing in 2040, and it envisions a scenario in which learners and institutions have a lifelong, symbiotic relationship made possible by new credentials, a different approach to advising, and artificial intelligence, among other things. More...
Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
Ah yes, another day, another entry into the record books as the world's smallerst computer. More...
Emerging Trends in Post-Secondary Education - The View to 2012
The point of this comprehensive series of slides is to demonstrate that there is a huge market for online learning waiting just around the corner, a market that has already begun to see the mergence of some major players, such as the University of Phoenix and the Apollo group, but which because of a virtually limitless demand will see an even greater increase. More...
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