February 2010
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January 2010
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“In the coming decades, lovers of the written word may find themselves...”
– Patrick Tucker
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“AI watchers predict that natural-language search will replace what some call...”
– Patrick Tucker
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“Today…the familiar letters of the alphabet are more abundant than ever....”
– Nicholas Carr
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WatchWonderful!
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Aliens might be just like us… greedy, violent and... →
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“I knew then that the book’s migration to the digital realm would not be a simple...”
– Steven Johnson, on How the E-book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
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“It’s a nice dream, and a common one: the shucking off of material possessions to...”
– Nicholas Carr
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“I think it is the most amazing time in human history to be alive and working....”
– Bruce Mau
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A Reading List for Futurists →
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How Teachers & Classrooms Will Need to Change in... →
From The Futurist:
How will digital technologies and hyperconnectivity affect learning and the classroom of the future? We at THE FUTURIST magazine, for our January-February issue, addressed this issue with communications scholar Janna Anderson, an associate professor in Elon University’s School of Communications and the lead author of the “Future of the Internet” book series published by...
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“The basic idea of this [new social] contract is that authors, journalists,...”
– Jaron Lanier
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“Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of...”
– MIT researcher David Dalrymple’s answer to the question, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?”
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2010: Living in the Future (the book, written in... →
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“Welcome to the future! It’s like the past, only more expensive.”
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John Brockman: "How is the internet changing the... →
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“In New England this year, we rented a cabin with nine other family members and...”
– Tekla Perry on “hiding from the internet”
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“Sometimes the people who invent things and the people who find out what things...”
– Anne Herbert
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“Music fans are more likely than musicians to love the kind of music they love...”
– Anne Herbert
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