Innovation alert: World’s first 3D printed canal house in Amsterdam — from freshome.com
…and, as usual, technology itself can be used for good or bad…here’s the far less appealing side of the coin (at least to me):
On 03/21/2013,
in 3D, architecture, engineering, Europe, innovation, science, the downsides of how people use tech,
by Daniel Christian
On 01/14/2013,
in art, engineering,
by Daniel Christian
For folks interested in art:
The Profilograph: A rotating device that creates continuously morphing profiles — from thisiscolossal.com
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From DSC:
An interesting cross-disciplinary device, no?
110 predictions for the next 110 years — from popularmechanics.com with thanks to Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) for posting this on twitter
From DSC:
Normally, I don’t care for these sorts of massive listings — 100 ways to…, 10,000 tools to check out…, etc. But I like peering into the future. So this caught my eye. Such predictions also illustrate the pace of change and that our kids will be growing up in a world very different from the one we grew up in.
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Also see/I saw this at:
- Nice to find a free circuit simulation tool — from blogs.ucl.ac.uk by Rodd Digges
On 12/04/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, entrepreneurship, experimentation, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online media, participation, play, productivity / tips and tricks, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom. That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc. So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:
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Other features/thoughts:
- Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
- Information travels many ways: From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
- The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
- What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
- This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:
So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:
- One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
- Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
- Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
- …and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?
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1) Learning Ideas: Making Classroom Equipment — from makerspace.com by Joel Rosenberg (8/6/12)
This is the first post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace.
2) Learning Ideas: Math in action — from makerspace.com by Joel Rosenberg (8/28/12)
This is the second post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace.
3) Learning Ideas: Cheap circuits and subsystems Learning Ideas: Math in action
This is the third post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace.
4) Learning Ideas: Design options, cross-referencing, cohesion — from makerspace.com by Joel Rosenberg (11/7/12)
This is the fourth and final post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace.
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Also see:
- Enabling end-users to program new robot skills — from willowgarage.com/blog
On 11/08/2012,
in 21st century, business, change, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, economics, emerging technologies, engineering, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, pace of change, programming, reinvent, robotics,
by Daniel Christian
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Digital Revolution’s Winners And Losers — from Information Week by John Foley
Workers with in-demand digital skills benefit most as computers increasingly take over
everyday tasks. In this InformationWeek 500 video, MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson discusses
how this trend could affect your enterprise.
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From DSC:
I agree with Erik that a large swath of people are being left behind, mainly because of technological changes and the pace of those changes. Again I ask, can you hear the engines roar? How can we re-train folks to take advantage of the 3+million open jobs out there? How can we reinvent ourselves as quickly as possible?
I agree with Erik that a large swath of people are being left behind, mainly because of technological changes and the pace of those changes. Again I ask, can you hear the engines roar? How can we re-train folks to take advantage of the 3+million open jobs out there? How can we reinvent ourselves as quickly as possible?
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Addendums:
- Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating — jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain’t seen nothing yet. But then he steps back to look at big history, and comes up with a surprising and even thrilling view of what comes next. - America’s jobs gap: 9 million — from cnn.com by Tami Luhby
On 11/06/2012,
in 3D, business, economics, engineering, entrepreneurship, open courseware and systems, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Book description:
Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers” using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent — creating “the long tail of things”.
Also see:
- Chris Anderson on why he’s leaving digital for DIY — from theatlanticcities.com by Richard Florida
- How 3D printing is disrupting mainstream manufacturing processes — from FreshHome.com
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Kleiner Perkins now accepting applications for its Second Annual Engineering Fellows Program — from techcrunch.com by Leena Rao
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Excerpt:
Last year, venture firm Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm’s portfolio companies. The benefit is two-fold: students get to work at the startup level and are mentored (and have the prestige of Kleiner Perkins on their resume), and startups get access to young engineering talent. After a successful inaugural program this summer, the venture firm is now accepting applications for the 2013 class.
On 09/22/2012,
in 21st century, Augmented Reality (AR), emerging technologies, engineering,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/21/2012,
in 21st century, career development, emerging technologies, engineering, entrepreneurship, global / globalization, love of learning, pace of change, robotics, society, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
“Is a large swath of people being left behind?”
A few things I was thinking about prompted me to ask this:
- The growth of robotics.
Will this leave more blue-collar workers out of work? Very likely.
. - The demand for technological skills, new media literacies, and the appreciation for the strategic value of technology
. - New ways of doing business– many of them being new to us. That is, they are enabled by innovations that we didn’t grow up with.
. - New jobs requiring brand new skills; yet because learning is not very enjoyable to many, they may not want to go back to “school.”
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Here’s but one recent example that relates to this line of thinking:
- This robot could transform manufacturing — from TechhjnologyReview.com by Will Knight
A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.
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Get a grip: Baxter demonstrates a simple manufacturing task at Rethink Robotics’ headquarters in Boston.
Daniel Lovering
- Rethink robotics reveals its revolutionary Baxter Manufacturing Robot — from nextbigfuture.com
- Rethink Robotics: Meet Baxter
We need lifelong learners and we need to enjoy learning! If people are coming out of high school or college saying, “I’ll never do that again!” then we have a serious problem.
Robot vs. human: Drum cover of classic punk hit by The Ramones — from singularityhub.com by David J. Hill
Cheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph; a bit faster than Usain Bolt
DARPA’s robotic cheetah, developed by Boston Dynamics, runs faster than Usain Bolt. (DARPA)
Bonus postings! 🙂
- ROBO-ONE 21: Championship Match (Video) — from robot dreams
Garoo faces off against Cortejyu Miharusu in the final match for the ROBO-ONE 21 Championship. Garoo is the defending champion and the crowd favorite. By tempusmaster. -
A desktop Singularity: Security cam footage of The Technological Singularity as it actually happened — by Socrates <– From DSC: also could be called, “Watch out how hard you hit your computer!” 😉
On 08/17/2012,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, emerging technologies, engineering, future, human-computer interaction (HCI),
by Daniel Christian
Sharp video of the Leap Motion Controller — as taken from AI, Robotics and Sensors everywhere timeline — nextbigfuture.com
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