Google Now and in the Future
The Holy Trinity of Google Mobile: voice recognition, natural language understanding, and understanding facts and components in the world.
Fred Turner on Burning Man as the Cultural Infrastructure for Commons-Based Peer Production
“Fred Turner discusses his opinions on the social phenomenon of Burning Man and how he thinks the ideals of the festival apply to the marketplace that is evolving in our society, specifically in the Silicon Valley.†Turner is also the author of the fascinating book From Counterculture to Cyberculture. via… Continue reading
Peeragogy Handbook Rocks
Remember the Peeragogy Handbook Project, facilitated by Howard Rheingold? A group of learners from various continents work peer2peer to create this handbook which wants to inspire people who want to take their learning in their own hands. The handbook has a very practical side – given that so many learning… Continue reading
Half an Hour: International MOOCs Past and Present
Stephen Downes on Half an Hour now has a list with international Massive Open Online Courses. Let’s not forget: there is more out there than the xMOOCs such as offered by Coursera, edX and Udacity – the connectivist courses offer a very different learning experience, based on distributed platforms, the… Continue reading
Our Brains in the Cloud
Who are we when parts of our brains are in our heads, but other parts are in the cloud, is one of the questions Keith Kleiner asks on SingularityHUB in this interview: Also consider the business model of SingularityHUB – you can become a member (for a modest contribution), which… Continue reading
Research the publishing industry by making things
Whiteboardmag has a story about how publishing giant Sanoma launches an in house startup accelerator. In other words: rather than endlessly researching and creating fiction-spreadsheets, they’ll foster intrapreneurship in order to find out about winning ideas in their industry. A kind of Makers-ethos:Â “These days, the successful models come from… Continue reading
Do we get more happiness from virtual worlds than from real good news?
An academic study co-authored last year by leading virtual world academic Edward Castronova suggests that people get more happiness from being in Second Life than they do from good news in their real life. Wagner James Au on New World Notes says this is probably also true for other virtual… Continue reading
Pilot Your Own Robotic Sub And Explore The Ocean With AcquatiCo | Singularity Hub
Another great story from Singularity Hub. If this Kickstarter project is successful, it will enable us to explore the oceans by just using our laptop or tablet. Which in a way reminds me of those cute iPad-robots enabling people to move around , see, hear and communicate from  whatever distance…. Continue reading
Find out about the future by looking at Defense
The computer visionary Doug Engelbart designed in the 1960s the NLS – the “oN-Line System” – a revolutionary computer collaboration system implemented by researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The NLS system, so explains Wikipedia, was the first to employ the practical use… Continue reading
Difference and the unexpected are what matters
Nice video about how education changes and should change. Because difference and the unexpected matter more than identical competences and predictability. Coursera is one of the examples of the ‘new education’, but I think other educational practices would be even more illustrative of the deep changes. Stephen Downes and George… Continue reading