Cohesion, Evolution, and the Currency of Ideas: From Halley to Jenner to Curiosity
Michael Gallagher I am still on a bit of a future focus and am still, tangentially, building on the ideas from this post and this post. I found myself looking towards history…
Artistic Depictions of the Future: Structure as Prophet and Architect
Apparently, I wasn’t quite done with the Cloud Atlas inspiration of my last post. In continuing with that post on science fiction making the future permissible in our conscious thought,…
The Role of Fiction in Articulating a Navigable Future; Science Fiction as Illumination
I could introduce a thousand disclaimers here, but a better tact might be too simply list my particular context in approaching this post. I have watched and rewatched the trailer…
Favorite images from Seoul, Korea for my year of 2011-2012: Curating some future daydreams
I don’t do these types of posts all that often (or ever, if I remember correctly), but I think a highly sentimental posts in order as I am finishing this…
MOOCs, Dissemination Lags, and Overused Vocabulary
This is a few different mini-posts rolled into one, but they all revolve around MOOCs so I decided to spare the reader the clickthroughs. This post discusses Distinctions between MOOCs…
Technology as Stabilizing Dynamic: Mobility, Motion, Music, and My Bike
Preamble Once again with the significant preamble, but this post needs a bit of context. I have mentioned before (ad nauseum) that I am working on a few different projects…
MobiMOOC: ICT4D proposed schedule and distinctions between MOOCs
Edinburgh, Coursera, and Two Kinds of MOOCs I was thrilled to see my former university, the University of Edinburgh join Coursera as announced yesterday and to see at least one…