Archive for January, 2009

What is Web 2.0 really?

January 28th, 2009
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I suppose Web 1.0 was like taking a beautiful park setting and turning it into a museum for preservation and admiration. Web 2.0 was taking that same park and turning it into a playground. Web 3.0 will be the ability of individuals to customize on the fly, the same playground with equipment they enjoy. In fact, the playground may just customize itself automatically according to our tastes when we show up.

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Technology has no place: Here’s why…

January 13th, 2009
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Technology development is the inevitable merging of the electro-mechanical machine with the electro-chemical human. Therefore, Technology does not have a ‘place’ per se because it is not as separate as our ‘boxed’ minds have thought. Nor is it outside the box. On a sub-atomic level, it and we are very nearly the same.

As for this course, I hope to see our minds blown by getting a real view of what’s just ahead. Wanna foretaste? Enjoy this 20 minute speech at Ted.com (but fasten your seatbelt!)…

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/38

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