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Microsoft Surface is going to become part of devices around us. This is an important technology for where things are going to be moving are important to understand as you predict the future of technology.

People inventing and predicting in their videos should read about microsoft surface.

Digital Underclass & great information from the BBC.

Fascinating listens from the BBC - their essential guide to the 21st century. A fascinating term that I cannot recall hearing is the "digital underclass" -- People who have "no chance of every going online." They are predicting that these people will be responsible for the next shift in the balance of power in the new century.

A signficant development since the advent of the world wide web. May offer an opportunity to predict.

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.

This article predicts what may happen in the future based on current experiments between universities. Gives some nice history. Some good material for a wiki.

Smarr is one of the people who can legitimately claim the benefit of foresight. He is one of the internet's architects, one of the academics who connected their universities using slow, slow dial-up modem links, just to see what would happen next. He has seen this communication highway grow, and is still at the forefront of research as he explores what he calls "ultra-broadband", asking the question: what will cyberspace look like when it is 10,000 times its current speed?

Australian article give some background on the web browser and prediction of what may evolve in the near future.

Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system.

While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.

Important article that would make a great video story for someone predicting how the Internet is changing - with commenters being hunted down by companies!

http://youtu.be/RIMB9Kx18hw Why you should hyperlink from your wiki pages.....

This is an article I found on how workflow software has decreased the amount of hours employees have to work.

Tourism is one of the worlds largest industries and globalisation is making foreign leisure more possible than ever. Globalisation may have other tolls with tourism and we need to find a route to sustainability in the global toruism market.

This survey shows that iPad with the $199 price tag is a 'serious" contender for the ipad. I had someone ask me about Kindle fire vs. iPad. Definitely people are comparing it.  Many people are definitely comparing the ipad to the Kindle fire although the Kindle fire has two issues that don't have anything to do with Amazon: the droid OS and the Droid app store. The droid OS still lacks in touch responsiveness from the reviews I read. The Droid app store is a lot more open but also includes more "junk" and even some privacy and virus laden things from what I hear. Does this matter to the average person who just wants a smaller device and a $199 price tag - we'll see. Tablets are definitely in our future. You can see the redesign of women's pocketbooks reflecting this!

New "social television" - you rate your shows, watch them, "check in" on the show. This is going to be very interesting.

"social television" Definitely worth "watching" This could make for a very interesting movie in the Flat Classroom project.

This is how movements now happen! Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time has girls not wearing makeup on Tuesdays. T-shirts and, of course, social media, characterize what these girls are doing (and the guys who support them.) For pundits who think social media is a negative, this is an example of how this generation redefines the world using social networking to spread statements of a generation more quickly than books can be printed.

Read about this trend. It would make a GREAT movie.

Explore flu trends around the world. Great for class discussions. You can also download world flu activity data.

The next evolution of connecting the world online - a great topic for a video.

Would love to see us look into 3D learning as well - from an older article in 1997.

Look at how this will work with wireless, another good idea for a movie.

An area of explosive growth that is beginning to emerge is the integration of other senses than sight and sound -- smell, touch, taste, etc. and this is an example of how a company is planning to use the sense of touch to let a person follow a soccer game. Don't know if anyone would do it, but if everybody thinks it is a good idea, as a rule, you're too late.

Great resources for people inventing things.

Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.

Important to include twitter as part of what you're reporting.

Interesting article w/ new term "hacktivists" -- politically motivated hackers. That is a new term. Twitter is written up in this report as being used by extremist groups of all kinds "socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others...." Why not just say everyone uses twitter? (Well, everyone DOESN"T use twitter but it can mobilize a lot of people in a pretty short time.)

The Ning for the upcoming conference in January -- it is REALLY Happening - I'm so excited!

The conference in January.

A lot of tax returns are prepared in india.

Colleges like Yale and MIT are sharing their courses with "open courseware" - this is a very important part of sharing and how things are changing. People can literally attend colleges without paying (of course, they don't get the "credit." But this is part of building a personal learing network and how people are connecting online like never before.

Yale is joining the open bandwagon and now has some more open courses including courses on "The American Novel Since 1945" "introduction to Greek History, Civil War History, France history since 1871, Milton, physics and engineering. There are great college level resources becoming available. There are also many audio books and online podcasts here.