Emerging Technologies

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Press Clippings

The initial listing of new clippings was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.

Recommended Reading

  • Time to Leave the Laptop Behind
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122477763884262815.html
    (Nick Wingfield, The Wall Street Journal, 23 February 2009.) For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go. Now road warriors are starting to realize that they can get even more portability -- and lots of computing punch -- from smart phones. [rss] --Ninmah 14:29, 1 June 2009 (PDT) --KeeneH 15:45, 20 May 2009 (PDT)
  • Are you Ready for Mobile Learning
    http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/AreYouReadyforMobileLearn/40029/
    (Joseph Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Valdes-Corbeil, Educause Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 2, 2007.) This paper shows that frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching. [I think that article begins to address the little discussed matter of not so much what icts can be used, but, are the people who need to use it able to do so? - --Ashfordrowe 20:44, 23 May 2009 (PDT)]
  • Twitter Keeps On Growing - Especially in Australia (Read/Write Web)
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_keeps_on_growing_-_especially_in_australia.php
    In Australia, Twitter grew over 1,000% since the beginning of 2009, and its annual growth since last April tops 3,200%. In Australia, Twitter is now the 37th most visited web site. (This service is being used for a range of education purposes including tapping into updates on politics, art and entertainment, interaction in large classes, creative writing.. the list goes on --Ttreagus 19:17, 24 May 2009 (PDT) TT)
  • A Collaborative Map of Modernism in Australia [MC]
    http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/09/a-collaborative.html
    (Dan Hill et al., City of Sound, September 2008.) This map displays the locations of modernist architecture across Australia, with links and images. It was developed after the author visited and critiqued the Modern Times exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum as a way of extending the reach of the exhibition across Australia.
  • How Your Location-Aware iPhone Will Change Your Life
    http://lifehacker.com/395171/how-your-location+aware-iphone-will-change-your-life
    (Adam Pash, Lifehacker, 5 June 2008.) The iPhone’s location-aware features enhance a host of applications from social networking tools to geotagging photos taken by the phone to nearby restaurant recommendations. [There are so many potential applications for 'location-aware' technology (educational, research and social) that I think that we are just at the beginning of the thinking as to how this type of technology will impact. - --Ashfordrowe 20:48, 23 May 2009 (PDT)]
  • Johnny Chung Lee: Projects
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
    Johnny Chung Lee's projects include interactive whiteboard surfaces and other tracking applications that use the Wii remote. Videos demonstrating the projects and the source code that make them work are available on the site.
  • The Network of Everything
    http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/id/90199
    Wireless experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players, games, sensors and other technology. To link these devices will require a ‘Network of Everything’. It represents an astonishing challenge, but European researchers believe that they are moving towards the solution. European researchers have just completed work on a networking project to perfect what will become known, perhaps, as the Smart Personal Network. Personal Networks, or PNs, are seen as essential for a world where many different devices must work in sync together, known as 4G (fourth generation). It will mean personalised services, low power devices with cheap, ubiquitous and broadband connectivity --KeeneH 15:45, 20 May 2009 (PDT)


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