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shared by Stephanie Sandifer on 07 Apr 08 - Cached

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection,
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the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
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“With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,”
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“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,”
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“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,”
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“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.
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shared by Morris Pelzel on 14 Apr 08 - Cached

what the future may hold for IT.
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Higher education has to get faster, faster, faster in adopting new technologies
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respond to the market forces by essentially blowing up our undergraduate curriculum.
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How do we more aggressively use blending across our different programs and services? How do we use more mobile technology, in particular, not just wireless, but all the devices that we have? They are getting into conversations about gaming, about social networking, about real, high-impact presentation technologies, even holographics, and then really looking at the analytic side of it, and the whole time thinking about how they maintain the human touch. …
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20 percent of all students in U.S. higher education.
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So things that used to happen almost in boot-camp fashion — the students come in; they all take the same courses; they march through a four- or five-year program together — forget about that. So whether it is new distribution models online, online models, outsourcing, increasingly commoditized skilled courses — those are all new business models that I think are going to be supported by technology.
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Higher ed has been very, very good at what I call the "case method" — copy and steal everything, right?
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