"I ask us - in journalism and in education (and in journalism education) - to aspire to being services. That requires us to start by thinking of the ends."
This is so right. Aspire being services, in education as in journalism, as both activities have so much in common.
"Our group designs new interfaces that integrate digital content in people's lives in more fluid and seamless ways. Our aim is to make it easier and more intuitive to benefit from the wealth of useful digital information and services. "
Pattie Maes and her group at MIT, lots of fascinating projects here, often making me think 'why isn't this ubiquitous right now already?' One of the reasons might be 'the economy, stupid' - like the idea of being able to swipe a file from one mobile app to another, seamlessly.
But eventually we'll get there. The future is fluid.
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