22nd+Century+Tools

Thornburg Playing the future.110335 The Exhibit hall is like a wayback machine: old technology in new boxes. So are smartboards, and projectors

64 inch flat panel multitouch screen 60,000 hours! will eclipse projectors and smartboards.... Hologram is the new 3-d In 2031..mars colony? Not enough people...recruiting on campus by allowing students to use NASA's stuff in exchange for a chance to do research in zero G. Then they hire the ones who dont vomit. Gesture is the new mouse. Kinnect x-box (should have been for all computers...)

Music; beamz interrupting light beam generates tones... []

Medicine invasive...minimally invasive surgery robotic with screenGE Healthcare Vscan (remember the tricorder?)sonogram handheld device instead of giant lab

Transportation Space shuttles combined with space hotel teleportation...cesium can move already..... Information science from 3 networks to bluetook and 3g

Internet: 2 billions (40 years from mainframe to smartphone) 5 billion cell phone users, even children > smart phone (texting)> Google app inventor, beta, scratch like, bar code loads app to phone write your own apps benefits: pride, custom

Cisco commerial 3 T3 lines, telepresence panels[|telepresence] Skpe for dinner...set up tv and webcam on a white table cloth and skype during dinner. Skip the 3-d and wait for: holodeck: holograms combine enjoy and understand. BBC four the joy of stats hologram rosling and data

3d printing (stl) extruded plastic creating tool..

Anxiety flow boredom put kids on the edge of anziety and they build skill to get into flow. They love to stay there... Self-selecting intereactive immersive challenge/ vs. skill

school is not just knowledge and skills, but also identity values and epistemology..

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Allison Robertson