The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world - everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.
In the process of our recent research and planning for the Horizon Project, it became useful to combine the previous reports from 2004-2009 into a single PDF. The past reports are available individually for free under Creative Commons licensing from the Horizon web site and our NMC publications page), but as a single "boxed set" you can do keyword searches across all of the titles.
"The aim of this foresight activity is to contribute to this vision building process by providing a range of imaginative visions on the key components of creative and innovative learning in Europe in 2020 (also labeled Learning Spaces in 2020)."
"Sideloading is a term used in Internet culture, similar to "upload" and "download", but in reference to the process of transferring data between two local devices, in particular between a computer and a mobile device such as a cellphone, smartphone, PDA, or portable media player.
Sideloading typically refers to media file transfer to a mobile device via USB, Bluetooth or by writing directly to a memory card for insertion into the mobile device."