I want to applaud the folks from ACU online for their poignant message regarding digital learning!
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The Future of Mobile Media and Communication in the year 2020 is visualizing the future vision of the MOCOM 2020 project. The trends, facts and thesis in this video are collected through an international crowdsourcing process and methodology at www.mocom2020.com
In the Gizmodo article The iPad will rule the world Jesus Diaz points to the Alan Kay quote regarding the iPad. While the size is one of the key factors to this prediction so is the fact that Kay envisioned a universally accessible wireless connected device–when you combine the size with the access the iPad may just be the start to a whole new future.
The Morgan Stanley reports in the following three different formats can be accessed directly from their site.
- “The Mobile Internet Report Setup”– a 92-slide presentation that excerpts highlights of the key themes from the report
- “The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes” – a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in “The Mobile Internet Report”
- “The Mobile Internet Report” – a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes in depth and includes the two aforementioned slide presentations + related overview text
While I have only had the time to go through the smaller 95 slide report setup it looks like Morgan Stanley has done really good job at addressing the key issues with the mobile internet. I am looking forward to finding some extended time to have a thorough look at the full report.
In the New York Times article A Library to Last Forever Sergey Brin the co-founder and technology president of Google explains Google’s position on the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers settlement and also attempts to dispel a few myths. Brin’s most poignent point clearly identifies the potential we have for loosing an enormous amount of our intellectual property if something like the Google Books project is not allowed to move forward:
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
Brin also points out that the Google settlement does not limit other organizations from doing the same thing and he hopes that Google efforts will blaze a trail for others to follow. The bottom line is that if Google or some other organization doesn’t make these out of books available we will eventually loose them. History doesn’t have to repeat it self.
