12 Laws of the Future
12 Laws of the Future For several decades now I have been contemplating our relationship with the future. Many of my colleagues think of me as that crazy guy who assigns human attributes to this thing we call the future. On occasion you can hear me uttering phrases...
The Coming Transparency Wars
The Coming Transparency Wars A report issued Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety boasted of the fact that red-light cameras were responsible for a significant drop in highway fatalities at the intersections where they were posted. With this one...
Curiosity-Driven Education
Curiosity-Driven Education “If a teacher can be replaced by a machine, they should be.” – Arthur C. Clark In 1999, Professor Sugata Mitra embedded a computer in a wall in a slum in New Dehli, connected it to high speed internet and left it there. Kids in the...