Cloudy skies ahead
Cloud computing is forecasted to be one technological development that has major implications for education. A recent post by Tim O’Reilly gives some background to its potential.
Posts Tagged ‘challenges’
The Utopia Experiment
“We live in strange times, caught between two opposing views of the future. On the one hand, the believers in technology and progress promise a world of ever increasing prosperity, a science-fiction scenario in which huge advances in technology have made material abundance and long healthy lives possible for people all over the world. On the other hand, the doomsayers warn us that climate change and the end of cheap oil will put an end to the stupendous economic growth we have seen in the past hundred years, and usher in a new dark age of poverty, disease and war. There are some middle positions, it is true, but they seem less convincing than the two extremes.” This article is written by Dylan Evans, and outlines his Utopia Experiment.
Collective thinking and acting
My homepage is a dynamic collection of the activity on some of the most popular websites. This morning it brought my attention to a blog post about a presentation given by Wisdom of the Crowds author James Surowiecki. The presentation was about how to harness collective intelligence to create informed consensus – something that relates to many elements of BCH.
