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A Profile on the World Changing

Mister V — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:06:12 +0000

The NYTimes is running a great piece called “How the US lost out on iPhone jobs.” It’s essentially a piece on capitalism, globalization and comparative advantage (sort of…that actually might be the most debatable part of the article…as comparative advantage usually is).

A section that stood out:

At the same time, [...]

Some quick thoughts on SOPA/PIPA

Mister V — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:47 +0000

As both a technology guy and a (former) social studies teacher, watching the SOPA/PIPA debate and struggle is fascinates me. These are bad bills. And they deserve to die – for obvious reasons.

Yet it’s the way in which Wikipedia, Google and the like are fighting this bill that intrigues me. I once [...]

Four Stages of Introducing New Technology

Mister V — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:38:23 +0000

Slate is running a great future-tense piece on how society reacts to new technology. Briefly, Brian Johnson qualifies this reaction into four steps:

It will kill us all! It will steal my daughter! I’ll never use it! What are you going on about?

I’m usually on step 4…although I am very suspicious that my [...]

what should be

Mister V — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:17:46 +0000

My conversations with colleagues and parents sometimes get into what computer skills schools should teach students. The conversations are almost always contain this bit of dialogue.

“We need to have Microsoft Office on student computers?”

“Why?”

“Because they’ll need it when they get into the real world.”

Setting aside the fact that we have no [...]

The Future of Textbooks/Education

Mister V — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:28:52 +0000

With all the rumors and hype of Tablets being the Next Big Thing in technology, here’s a very fascinating video/commercial demonstrating how a tablet (or a smart phone?) could be used in the classroom.

The future of the internet: Semantic Web

Mister V — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:32 +0000

A glimpse at the next step for the internet.