Here are some great tools that you can use to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
A SF version of the library of the future from the movie The Time Machine, which is based on the famous novel by H G Well. The interesting thing is that while the books have disappeared they have kept the personal (and a bit annoying) librarian. Even though he is virtual… This is almost the same vision as Neil Stephenson has in SnowCrash.
When does a library cease to be a library?
What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists here at the 2009 Educause Conference pondered the evolution of one of higher education’s oldest institutions.
“Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.”
Seen at Inside Higher Ed
Banker Bonus Rain - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
A bonus system out of hand!
John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer | Video on TED.com
An optimistic talk about a number of consumer value trends that signals that people are changing in the right direction:
It is no secret that personalized communication technologies cause increased transparency on many levels.
This blog post in Smart Mobs tells a couple of stories suggesting that this transparency has taken another important step when theorists on both the counter terrorist side and terrorist side starts to communicate person to person over the Internet.
I take this as a clear sign that the dominant hierarchical model is being challenged on a much deeper level than before. Now we just have to wait and see how the hierarchical structures will react to this.
Google’s New Mobile App Cuts GPS Nav Companies At The Knees
In the very near future nobody will be able to earn money on navigation systems - it will become a fundamental human right to now where you are and how to get where you wan. So if Google fails to deliver this service for free sometime in the future we will probably put pressure on our governments to provide it.
