Best 15 Free Virtual Reality Apps for Education — from vudream.com by Mark Metry
On 08/29/2019,
in A/V -- audio/visual, attention, biology, chemistry, communications, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, history, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, user experience (UX), vendors, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, XR - extended reality, youth,
by Daniel Christian
On 08/29/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Transforms Video Technology — from datafloq.com
AI and machine learning have many use cases in digital video technology. Here are several of them…
On 08/28/2019,
in 21st century, corporate / business world, Cost of legal services - including access, emerging technologies, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, society, tools, vendors, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Why GCs Aren’t Buying What Legal Tech Is Selling and Why It Matters for Firms — from law.com by Zach Warren and Gina Passarella Cipriani
Legal technology companies have to get out of their own way in vying for law department adoption, and buyers need to know what they want.
Excerpt:
The legal technology industry has some significant hurdles to overcome in its increased push to sell into legal departments, general counsel say. And GCs admit that they are part of the problem.
On the one hand, technology companies aren’t doing themselves any favors by flooding the market with, at times, dozens of the same offerings, few of which solve specific problems the in-house community has, GCs say. But at the same time, general counsel admit to being distracted, budget-constrained and often unfamiliar with the capabilities of the products they are being pitched.
“It’s overwhelming,” says HUB International chief legal officer John Albright. “There are hundreds of these vendors, and most of them you’ve never heard of.”
As Albright sees it, the legal technology industry is “heavily fragmented,” with vendors selling solutions to a discrete issue that doesn’t necessarily solve the full problem he has or fit into the larger organization’s information systems.
Also see:
- Artificial Intelligence Further Exacerbates Inequality In Discrimination Lawsuits — from forbes.com by Patricia Barnes
Excerpt:
The legal system just keeps getting more and more unequal for American workers who are victims of employment discrimination, wage and hour theft, etc. The newest development is that America’s top employers and the law firms that represent them are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to automate their responses to workers’ legal claims, thereby increasing efficiency while cutting costs.
On 08/27/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system — from fastcompany.com by Mike Elgan
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior. The ultimate goal is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step,” according to the Chinese government.
In place since 2014, the social credit system is a work in progress that could evolve by next year into a single, nationwide point system for all Chinese citizens, akin to a financial credit score. It aims to punish for transgressions that can include membership in or support for the Falun Gong or Tibetan Buddhism, failure to pay debts, excessive video gaming, criticizing the government, late payments, failing to sweep the sidewalk in front of your store or house, smoking or playing loud music on trains, jaywalking, and other actions deemed illegal or unacceptable by the Chinese government.
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IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies.
Here are some of the elements of America’s growing social credit system.
If current trends hold, it’s possible that in the future a majority of misdemeanors and even some felonies will be punished not by Washington, D.C., but by Silicon Valley. It’s a slippery slope away from democracy and toward corporatocracy.
From DSC:
Who’s to say what gains a citizen points and what subtracts from their score? If one believes a certain thing, is that a plus or a minus? And what might be tied to someone’s score? The ability to obtain food? Medicine/healthcare? Clothing? Social Security payments? Other?
We are giving a huge amount of power to a handful of corporations…trust comes into play…at least for me. Even internally, the big tech co’s seem to be struggling as to the ethical ramifications of what they’re working on (in a variety of areas).
Is the stage being set for a “Person of Interest” Version 2.0?
On 08/24/2019,
in cost of getting a degree, Cost of legal services - including access, higher education, ideas, IT in HE, law schools, leadership, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, MBA, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, platforms, United States, universities, vendors, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
5 Reasons Why BU’s $24K MBA Is A Big Deal — from insidehighered.com by Joshua Kim
Why I’m intrigued.
Excerpt:
The newly announced $24K BU MBA, created in partnership with edX, is a big deal.
Here are 5 reasons why:
#1: The Evolving Connection Between Status and Price:
The Boston University Questrom School of Business is ranked in the top 50 global business schools by US News, in the top 70 by the Economist. Questrom is a brand name business school in a market where the value of the MBA is directly proportional to the status of the institution.
Today, status and price are tightly correlated in the postsecondary market. This is especially true in professional education. Student prices are not set at costs, but at perceived value.
BU should be given credit for challenging this status quo. I suspect that the Questrom $24K MBA will end up improving BU’s place in the global MBA rankings.
What is different now is that it will not only be enthusiasm for learning science that will drive schools (and MBA programs) to improve their programs. It will be the market.
On 08/24/2019,
in Daniel S. Christian, faith, global / globalization, relationships, religion, society,
by Daniel Christian
Mark 2:1-12 (NIV) — from biblegateway.com
2 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7 “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? 9 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? 10 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, 11 “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 12 He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
From DSC:
“…what they were thinking in their hearts…” Wow….that wording hasn’t caught my attention the way it just did this morning. It doesn’t refer to thinking as I/we tend to view it — i.e., with our minds — but rather, thinking in our hearts. Hmmm….
On 08/23/2019,
in 21st century, Blockchain, innovation, law schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, platforms, professional development, society, tools,
by Daniel Christian
International Legal Tech Conference Breaks Attendance Record — from biglawbusiness.com by Sam Skolnik
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Law firms are cashing in on blockchain through the growth of practice groups that represent blockchain developers and users. Attorneys are also are considering growing their use of “smart contracts,” which are blockchain based.
In addition to seeking continued growth in its membership and conferences, ILTA in the coming year will be focusing on diversity and inclusion within the legal tech sector, said Rush.
Legal tech investments have skyrocketed from $233 million two years ago to $1.7 billion in 2018, according to figures from the Legal Tech Sector Landscape Report by Tracxn Technologies.
On 08/22/2019,
in 21st century, emerging technologies, engineering, internet, IT in HE, platforms, robotics, society, tools, trends, United States,
by Daniel Christian
Gartner: Top Wireless Tech Trends to Watch — from campustechnology.com by Rhea Kelly
Excerpts:
The research firm identified 10 key wireless trends worth watching as the technology continues to develop over the next five years:
- Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) wireless. This is the technology that will allow conventional cars, self-driving cars and the road infrastructure to all share information and status data.
- Wireless sensing. This involves using the absorption and reflection of wireless signals as sensor data for radar tracking purposes. As an example, Gartner pointed to wireless sensing as an indoor radar system for robots and drones.
On 08/21/2019,
in faith, global / globalization, hearts -- matters of the heart, relationships, religion, society,
by Daniel Christian
Philippians 2:5-11 New International Version (NIV) — from biblegateway.com
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Apple puts the AR in ‘ART’ (and in ‘Transparent Sky-Being’) — from wired.com by Peter Rubin
Augmented reality is helping create a more artistic reality ? pic.twitter.com/ZXEA0he57n
RT @CNET #AR #AugmentingReality #AugmentedReality #MR #XR #MixedReality #art #creativity #creative #design #emergingtech #innovation #tech
— Fred Steube (@steube) August 20, 2019