In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Microsoft chief exec. Steve Ballmer claimed, among other things, that within the next 10 years there will be “no media consumption left… that is not delivered over an IP network.  There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form.”  When I saw this [...]

Yesterday, Bob Stein visited us here in Manhattan to talk about, among other things, the future of the book in the digital age. Bob is the director for the Institute for the Future of the Book which he dubbed a “think and do-tank” that is interested in exploring the emerging forms of and potential changes [...]

Graduation is coming up mid-May and I couldn’t be more excited – and anxious.  I am more than ready to take a hiatus from late night studying and test-taking, but the decisions that are going to be popping up soon after I graduate are going to be equally as stressful.  My original plan was to [...]

My adviser, Michael Wesch, just published an insightful article about the state of education. I won’t go into terrible detail about it here. I’ll let you all read it for yourselves – it’s definitely worth it. He makes a poignant critique about the lack of vision and the overwhelming myopia that characterizes education today. Of [...]