With a rich history in education and ICT as a teacher, involvement in a governmental educational ICT project ‘Teleleren’, the establishing of an ICT institute for business education, being manager at an educative publisher and a management trainer, Jeroen Krouwels is currently co-owner, executive Business Development and senior advisor at PAT Learning Solutions, based in Tilburg. It…
Mark Deuze starts, in the introduction of his book, to argue that most students that follow studies like; journalism, advertising, games, film and television have lack of knowledge on managing their media work and industry. They know, for instance, exactly how to design a new game but ‘they are not empowered to understand how and why the industry works the…
Christopher Mead
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18 September 2011, 4:57 pm
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tags: Amish, classification, convergence, Conviviality, culture, Entropy, evolution, exotropy, future, innovation, Kevin Kelly, life, lifeforce, McLulan, Moore's Law, production, robots, Star Trek, Technium, technology
“Space: the final frontier – to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
This may be the answer Kelly was looking for when he set out to answer his own question, the title of his book and thesis. Let’s not get carried away here – I have chosen the above quote in all seriousness. The infamous Star Trek phrase…
Chris Hoogeveen
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21 October 2010, 1:16 pm
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tags: Amrita, androgyny, Ba Xian, computer, download, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Freeze, future, future technology, George Dvorsky, H+, hack, Hans Moravec, homo sapiens, human, humanism, humanist, Humanity Plus, immortality, Julian Huxley, Max More, Mind Children, mythology, nanotechnology, Natasha Vita-More, Nature, neurocemistry, Nick Bostrom, Plastic Surgery, posthuman, posthumanism, posthumanist, protocol, science, Steven Shaviro, T.S. Elliot, transhuman, Transhumanism, transhumanist, upload, virus
The idea of immortality plays a significant role in the human life. Within every generation, and within every culture this is an issue. The Chinese incorporate this with Ba Xian, the eight immortals. Within he Indian Mythology there is Amrita. Whomever drinks from this potion will be granted with eternal life. This is also the case with the…
Alternative title: How can the eBook be the future?
Only a few days ago I came across this video, produced by IDEO, narrating this particular organization’s vision on the future of the book. By presenting three different designed interfaces on e-book, each one serving a distinguished purpose, IDEO portrays the…
Definition of a book: a number of sheets of paper, parchment, etc. with writing or printing on them, fastened together along one edge, usually between protective covers
Definition of an e-book: A small, portable device onto which the contents of a book in electronic format can be downloaded and read.
But will both remain existing in the future?
In this…
Chris Hoogeveen
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13 October 2010, 7:54 pm
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tags: academics, bill gates, blogosphere, Bol.com, Bolter, Bolter & Grusin, book, Chris Hoogeveen, clay tabled, content, Daniel Ropers, digital era, E=MC2, eBook, ebooks, electronic publishing, encyclopedia, EO, ePublishing, eReader, ereaders.nl, essay, Evangelische Omroep, formula, future, Grusin, harry potter, hyves, J.K. Rowling, Jong, journal, Judith Visser, Leo de Haes, Marshall McLuhan, Matrix, media, media studies, mediated life, medium, Microblogging, microblogs, Netherlands, new media, offline, old media, online, paper, Printed book, publish, Publishing, remediation, Robert Darnton, science, Scrooged, social networking sities, social networks, social networksites, Sven Birkerts, Terry Flew, The book in the digital era, the Matrix, twitter, Wachowsky Brothers, widget, widgets, wikipedia, write, writer, writing, written, www.bol.com
Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today the book is just a commodity. It is still used very often, but for how long? Terry Flew wrote in his…
Perhaps it’s my dissatisfaction with social media hypes, and especially the ones that are ignited by marketing guru’s, but I can’t resist the feeling of pseudo science when I read about analyses and predictions about social media on blogs. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading these posts about the subject that I love, but the neglection of making arguments with scientific foundation is what bothers me. Now I understand that on most popular blogs we are not dealing with new media researchers but I would think that if you are writing about these media a little more profundity would not harm you.
Repair is an art and technology festival organized by ARS Electronica, an Austrian platform for digital art and media culture based in Linz. The festival was held this year from September 2 until September 11. The message of Repair is loud and clear. Up until now we homo sapiens have gone out of our way to slowly destroy the…
At the recent Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels, I had the lucky pleasure of meeting Jon Phillips, a man with seemingly as many projects in a given moment as he has fingers and toes. Just a few of his notable involvements include: vector graphics application Inkscape, the Open Clipart Library, the innovative web application stack Aiki Framework, the fully-federated Twitter replacement Status.net (which powers identi.ca), and the projects (palm-top computer, video camera, and portable VJ station) being developed at Qi Hardware. All of these projects are free in the ontological imperative sense.
