Via SmartMobs and blip.tv – Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, on how tech has changed Politics. Many great points here and it leaves me wondering not only about the future relationship between tech and politics, but how participatory democracy will in turn shape the tools that helped it emerge.
Categories: politics, technology
Tagged: democracy, governance, politics, technology
Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated. Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]
Categories: education, technology
Tagged: education, jenkins, learning, McLuhan, media, technology
A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior. Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes. New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way. Still no mention of using [...]
Categories: technology
Tagged: consumerism, future, mobile, technology, web