The world is your classroom.
If you and a group of friends are arguing about some piece of trivia and someone says, Let’s look this up on Wikipedia,” and then that person starts to read the information out loud to the group, thus resolving the argument. This represents a microlearning moment. This actually foreshadows a much larger transformation – socialstructed learning.
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Wall hopping, the latest extreme swimming sport!
Quote of the Day: “Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.” – Kurt Vonnegut
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I went through the process of analyzing how much of what I learned in college that I’m still using today. This ends up being a difficult thing to assess.
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The Great Recession and the weak recovery darkened the retirement picture for significant numbers of Americans.
A majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents for the first time since the New Deal. This jeopardizes a long era of improved living standards for the nation’s elderly, according to a growing consensus of new research.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I was speaking at the MD&M West Expo in Anaheim, California on the “future of manufacturing.” With over 2,000 manufacturing exhibitors filling the convention center, there was no small amount of interest in this topic.
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The futurist … Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Don’t forget to wish any futurists you see today a happy anniversary. February 20th is the movement’s birthday. On this date in 1909 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet, technophile, and promoter of the arts, had his The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism published on the front page of Le Figaro.
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The real life of Tom and Jerry
Quote of the Day: “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” – Jay Leno
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Futurist Thomas Frey: How many pills do you take on a daily basis?
According to a 2010 study by Colorado State University, about 68% of American adults take multivitamin supplements. At the same time the average American fills 12 prescriptions a year.
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“We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today’s hot technology create platforms for future disruption,” analyst Bryan Hopkins writes.
Forrester, a research firm, understands that everyone who’s been listening knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.
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Content will come to you.
You can call it “anticipatory computing,” or “information gravitation” or whatever you want, but it appears the future of search isn’t search at all. Instead, next-generation applications will surface the information we need when we need it — whether we know we need it or not.
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If things go really well, our civilization will continue to evolve and diversify.
A lot of science fiction and visions of the future from futurists lean towards the negative – and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. But the demise of the civilization is by no means guaranteed. Should we find a way to manage the risks and avoid dystopic outcomes, our far future looks astonishingly bright. Here are seven best-case scenarios for the future of humanity.
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Predicting the future.
What does the future of humanity hold? Looking ahead at our future is an integral part of human nature. Information Is Beautiful Studio have compiled 38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity in general — with an educated guess as to their odds of actually becoming reality. (infographic)
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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