Month: May 2024

Discussion:   The data-gathering capacity of wearable devices, including smartphones, combined with cloud-based analytics, has proven itself in clinical health applications (e.g. cardiac recovery) and for personal improvement (e.g.…

Discussion: Borrowing from the great Marquez novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, this topic reflects the state of magical realism that has infected every part of education globally due to the COVID-19…

Discussion:  The original web was about information.  Web 2.0 was about making it social.  The next huge transformation of the web, enabled almost entirely by the intimacy…

Discussion:   You’ve probably met Siri, one of the first generation of Personal Assistants, or one of her many siblings, such as Alexa, or possibly seen the…

Discussion:  Within a couple of decades literally trillions of objects from lamp-posts to refrigerators will be connected to the Internet, and will be talking to one…

Discussion:    One of the leading friction-reducing phenomena flowing from mobility is the so-called Sharing Economy, with proponents such as Airbnb and Uber, wherein somebody creates…

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,…

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…

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…