Quotes About Technology

year (and still remains there) inviting comments by anyone registered to the site. An innovative digital tool, called Commentpress, allowed any reader to open a comment box for any paragraph of the text and to type in a response, and

of bandwidth and other infrastructure far from universally available as well as issues of censorship in

linked to SMARTBoards in every classroom and networked so that assignments and notes can be accessed even from home. The building itself is also unique in its holistic approach. Rainwater is caught and repurposed for use in toilets, the roof is covered with vegetation to shield it from ultraviolet rays, panels embedded within the windows capture

based on natural lighting and atmospheric conditions, and sensors in all the rooms turn lights on and off depending on whether the space is being used. In short, the School of the Future incorporates many innovations but also has high-tech interactivity that borders on extreme surveillance

April 21, 2007, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, at Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface, the first international HASTAC conference; and on May 11, 2007, at the University of California's Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), in Irvine, California.

Anderson's The Long Tail

the creative use and development of new technologies for learning and research; second, critical understanding of the role of new media in life, learning,

commercial economy depend on mobile access of one form or another. To fail to acknowledge the cost of human labor and the amount of support necessary to sustain virtual institutions

visionary behind the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. This project would not have been conceived, let alone

When considering the future of learning institutions in a digital age, it is also important to look at the ways that digitality works to cross the boundaries within and across traditional learning institutions. How

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital

Cathy N. Davidson

The Classroom and the World Wide Web

money revamping its technology offerings, creating great wired spaces where all forms of media can be accessed from the classroom. But how many have actually rethought the modes of organization, the structures of knowledge, and the relationships between and among groups of students, faculty, and others across campus or around the world? That larger challenge-to

Lacking confidence in your ability to change, it's much easier to blame the changed situation—typically, new technologies—and then dig in your heels, raising a bulwark against the new.

If you were on life support, I would unplug it to charge my phone.

A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language.

The richer you are, I've worked out, the smaller your telephone and the bigger your telephoto lens.

Yet all the projections confirm that SSPS plants built at a space manufacturing facility out of nonterrestrial materials should be able to undersell electricity produced by any alternative source here on Earth.

In a few moments the sign changed to the personal radio nickname of the car owner, and a little later it switched to a political slogan advocating the election of a candidate.

She showed me the controls for the stereo, the video, and the lights, and added that if I just spoke in a normal tone in any room the house computer would hear me and carry out my instructions. I wasn't at all sure I liked the idea that every word I spoke was being listened to, but it seemed to be the price of perfect service.

Each passenger was given a boarding card that was also a radio receiver, and all the announcements about particular shuttle or spaceship flights were made only to those passengers who had the corresponding receiver-cards.

It would be quite feasible to project materials from the Moon's surface down to Earth by means of electrically powered catapults or launching tracks," he wrote.

we'll have weather control by 2015,