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Mark Weiser, 1988ff
Example: "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century" (1991)
“The most profound technologies are
those that disappear. They weave
themselves into the fabric of
everyday life until they are
indistinguishable from it.”
“The mobile phone is the primary connection tool for most people in the world. In 2020, while "one laptop per child" and other initiatives to bring networked digital communications to everyone are successful on many levels, the mobile phone—now with significant computing power—is the primary Internet connection and the only one for a majority of the people across the world, providing information in a portable, well-connected form at a relatively low price.”
"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular…
"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006526-56.html ; image via Wikipedia
Combining devices, format, services, and business model
Kindle: Amazon store
iPad: iTunes book section
Android: Play
Laminating the world digitally
Media consumption
Interfacetransformation
Media capture
Social connection
Web 2.0, amped
Microcontent increases
Social participation increases
From consumer to user to prosumer
Accelerando!
Demographics
Great Recession
Hollowing out of middle class
Globalization
Automation
World going online
Complexity of US higher education
Adjunctification
K-12 reform
Serials + monograph crises
Mobile apps
Persistent DRM
Social media’s triumph
Interface transformations
Global cyberwar and surveillance
Star system intensifies
Adjunctification increases (rōninmodel, King and Nanfito)
Sticker prices drop, leading to more cuts
F2f for elites
http://research.studentclearinghouse.org/files/TermEnrollmentReport-Spring2013.pdf
Industries collapse
Authorship mysterious
Some low quality tech (videoconf.)
Some higher costs
More malware + less privacy
Information prices drop
Faculty creativity, flexibility grow
IT “ “ “
Academic content unleashed on the world
Tech challenges
Outsourcing and offshoring
PLE beats LMS
Crowdsourcing faculty work
Information literacy central
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thales/2782129254/
Economic growth returns to US (energy, medical, nanotech vsworld)
17-22-year-old residential niche revitalized (K-12 failure)
Full-time faculty stabilize (AAUP-ALA strike)
Higher education landscape:
Supplemental rather than transformative tech
Logistical instead of pedagogical tech
Academics include tech in old structures (classes, publication
Bryan Alexander
http://bryanalexander.org
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