...induced by the financial services industry has barely subsided since last week, but I sincerely vow to not mention the B word on this blog again. I would just be reiterating the same grievances using slightly flowerier language. And by that I don't mean colourful - just more extravagant.
Easter weekend was a welcome break, even if trying to compress ten days' work into eight is always a bit tricky. Maybe if we had AR/HUD glasses a few things would be made easier? Or maybe we're giving away too many of our social skills and human abilities to technology? Is this genuine social concern or technophobic paranoia? If you wonder what I'm wittering on about, check out this promo for Google's Project Glass and see what you think. My two cents is that there are some decent ideas in there, but the overall effect will be to shorten our attention span further, meaning self-disciple will, as always, be at a premium. For a further extension of all this wacky futurism, have a butchers at this infographic. Stunning both in its appearance and its content, this is the sort of thing you can get lost in for ages.
Easter weekend was a welcome break, even if trying to compress ten days' work into eight is always a bit tricky. Maybe if we had AR/HUD glasses a few things would be made easier? Or maybe we're giving away too many of our social skills and human abilities to technology? Is this genuine social concern or technophobic paranoia? If you wonder what I'm wittering on about, check out this promo for Google's Project Glass and see what you think. My two cents is that there are some decent ideas in there, but the overall effect will be to shorten our attention span further, meaning self-disciple will, as always, be at a premium. For a further extension of all this wacky futurism, have a butchers at this infographic. Stunning both in its appearance and its content, this is the sort of thing you can get lost in for ages.
Today we published a story stating that according to new research, 41% of enterprises are considering using tablets for training. That's not even half, and that statement also allows for a further percentage to consider tablet-based training and turn it down, of course. Despite this, the trend in home and business life is towards technological innovation and improvement. That much is definite. How will we be learning in ten years? Your shiny new tablet will look positively archaic. One of my favourite ideas that came out of January's Learning Technologies was keynote speaker Ray Kurzweil's assertion that, in respect of advances in technology, once you are 1% of the way there, you're almost finished. (There are only seven steps to completion from there, exponentially).
