Smart Communities
Discussion: The global “Smart City” movement is about harnessing sensor data of all kinds to make cities more efficient and offer better services to residents. However, these initiatives model cities as ‘machines’ rather than human communities, and forget that the smartest sensors in any city have two legs. Smart Communities is about the ways that passive and active information […]
Transhumanity
Discussion: Beyond smartphones, Google Glass, and wearable technologies, we’ve entered an age where our DNA can be edited, our microbiomes can be cultivated, and connected devices can be implanted in us, or attached to us, to repair or extend our ‘natural’ abilities. Eyeglasses have been around for 700 years, so this isn’t exactly ‘new’, but […]
MOOCs
Discussion: Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been around for several years, with large companies like Coursera, Udacity, and EdX battling for marketshare, their flexibility endgame being to offer every element of education from K-12 through college, graduate and professional schools online, largely for free, with the potential to completely disrupt existing education institutions and global markets […]
How to Begin
So if you are joining the course now, please first walk through all of the Instructions posts. You are currently in the second Instructions post. Next is the Course Manual, then the Weekly Schedule, Assignments and Participation Guidelines. You can see all of the Instructions posts be selecting “Instructions” within the Category field in the […]
Riding and Being the Flow
All posts in this category prior to this one are from previous cohorts – you are riding forth on the wave of knowledge they created – it is more than an archive: it is a continuing conversation where it is now your turn to speak. Your role is to add value to their knowledge stream, […]