{"id":2226,"date":"2010-03-05T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:45:45","slug":"google-predicts-demise-of-the-desktop-masie-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/05\/google-predicts-demise-of-the-desktop-masie-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Google predicts demise of the desktop &#8212; Masie Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie &#8211; March 5, 2010.<\/strong><br \/>\n#609 &#8211; Updates on Learning, Business &amp; Technology.<br \/>\n54,891 Readers &#8211; <a title=\"Masie Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masie.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.masie.com<\/a> &#8211; The MASIE Center.<br \/>\nHost: Virtual Leadership LAB &amp; Seminar &#8211; Saratoga Springs<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Google predicts demise of the desktop: <\/strong>John Herlihy, Google&#8217;s VP of Global Ad Operations, has claimed that desktop PCs would become &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; in three years down the line. Addressing the Digital Landscapes Conference in Dublin, Herlihy predicted a bleak future for desktop PCs, as smartphones, netbooks, along with other gadgets are evidently gaining grounds over them. In his keynote speech, Herlihy said: &#8220;In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs&#8221;.\u00a0 This echoes Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#8217;s comments Global sales of smartphones and other high-end handheld devices have been soaring at a rapid pace and would very soon surpass sales of traditional PCs.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This has huge implications for the learning field &#8211; as we look towards supporting learning through a new and broader range of mobile based resources. Learning designers will need to refocus their design sensibilities towards a smaller footprint and very different type of learning application <\/strong><em>(emphasis DSC).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie &#8211; March 5, 2010. #609 &#8211; Updates on Learning, Business &amp; Technology. 54,891 Readers &#8211; http:\/\/www.masie.com &#8211; The MASIE Center. Host: Virtual Leadership LAB &amp; Seminar &#8211; Saratoga Springs Google predicts demise of the desktop: John Herlihy, Google&#8217;s VP of Global Ad Operations, has claimed that desktop PCs would become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,112,200,143,32,63,119,118],"tags":[614,128,602,629,120],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-disruption","category-education-technology","category-google","category-instructional-design","category-training-corporate-universities","tag-change","tag-corporate-training-universities","tag-google","tag-instructional-design","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}