Where is technology heading??
// March 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Future, Technology
Had an exciting meeting today with some fellow SCIL associates with regards to planning how to use the teaching space in our new 8 million dollar building. We are wanting to use cutting edge technology to help promote learning in a 21st century styl, rather than continue in our 20th Century habits.
I have been doing a bit of basic research into what the future holds for technology and the future and I am just trying to begin to get my head around it.
I came across these key findings in a new report based on the survey of experts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020. The summary of their findings were:
- The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
- The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
- Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
- Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.
- The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
- “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1053/future-of-the-internet-iii-how-the-experts-see-it
This Youtube video puts the future into perspective
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXNWwGUsBU]
