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TechLearn2009Cliff Landis
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Our ability to create is that which makes us uniquely,
wonderfully human.
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GenesThose selfish little buggers!
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Look at life from the perspective of a grain of rice…
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•Variation•Selection•Replication
Memes
www.flickr.com/photos/62183326@N00/2092969737
I can haz lolspeak?
www.flickr.com/photos/91525158@N00/405077635
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.” -- Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)
Look at how we organize books…
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But why not by color?www.flickr.com/photos/41894194320@N01/839927986
Unfortunately, bad ideas (and memes) don’t die easily
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Temes(technological memes)
•Variation•Selection•Replication
TEME THEMES
Teaching the Machine
http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/all-about-google-presentationhttp://recaptcha.net/
Robotics
Where’s my vodka-tonic-bot?(and my leisure suit?)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sots/1271028593/
Well, it’s a start…
www.flickr.com/photos/29904699@N00/252196607
Okay, so maybe they don’t start out cute….
www.flickr.com/photos/8769295@N07/2340640371 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
Human – Computer Interaction
http://www.slashgear.com/lg-prada-ii-and-prada-link-bluetooth-watch-launch-1823215/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lambdachialpha/252434317/
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/7-high-tech-cell-phones-you-cant-buy
Perceptive Pixelhttp://www.gadgetvenue.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/multi-touch-display.jpg
3D touch display
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090310/166952/
Augmented Reality
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/index.htm
Transhumanism
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/brain.html
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Biotech
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• Chemically modified emotions• Chemically modified thought processes• Preventative medicine• Retarded aging•Genetic engineering• Evolution
Open Source
www.flickr.com/photos/83245449@N00/39036635
Technology is People!
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Our ability to create is that which makes us uniquely,
wonderfully human.
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We will never be able to stop the evolution of technology, because it is fueled by what makes us human—our creativity.
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The blood that paid for our mobile phoneshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/16935515@N00/1353712127
The speed at which we create has far surpassed the speed at which we understand.
www.flickr.com/photos/13172875@N08/2170448724
Symbiosis
www.flickr.com/photos/73662475@N00/2651957971
What can the library do?
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• Don’t ignore change – engage & evaluate it.
• Put the library’s users first.• Enable and encourage the telling of
shared narratives.
• Libraries embody the hope that we can learn to understand our creations, our neighbors, and ourselves.
Each of us hold the candle of creation.
What will we do
with it?
Burn up our world, and ourselves with
it?
Light the way for others?
Or help others light their own candles?
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Thank you.
