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2013-05-18 13:09:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Is Internet policy weather today stormy, cloudy or sunny? See more than 50 World Technology Policy Forum and World Summit on the Information Society attendees' opinions on this question and five others in our May 2013 video series: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/wtpf_wsis_2013/default.xhtml …

2013-05-09 12:53:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Elon University's Imagining the Internet project has a nifty new website. Check it out here: http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org 

2013-05-09 12:52:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Cambria Press has released our new book "Battle for Control: The Future of the Internet V" http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/about/publications.xhtml. It is based on the survey http://goo.gl/cIW0V co-authored by Lee Rainie of Pew Internet and I. Thanks to all participants in the project!

2013-04-07 17:56:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here's a very good Verge report on cops wearing on-body cameras. If cops ended up being the only ones who bought Segways, I wonder whether they'll be the biggest market for Google Glass. 
The trend toward wearable cameras among officials will also mean that police will defend the notion that what happens in public is public. And it will mean that they can -- or rather, should -- have no complaint about being taped as public officials working in public. 

2013-04-07 12:40:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Read it: Carlos Lozada of the Washington Post looks at "The End of Everything" in a well-written essay that takes on our fascination with predicting "the end." In part, he notes: 'On the plus side, illness has ended, along with poverty, racism, war — even homework. If you thought these things were still around, just pick up “The End of Sex,” by Donna Freitas, published last week, or Moises Naim’s “The End of Power,” which came out last month. Try David Wolman’s “The End of Money” or David Agus’s “The End of Illness.” Those came out in 2012, the same year that Hanna Rosin affirmed “The End of Men” and John Horgan imagined “The End of War.” One could dismiss this proliferation of “The End” as a plea for attention by publishers, magazine editors, authors, bloggers, TED talkers and the rest of the ideas industry — a marketing device signaling littlemore than the end of imagination. But... more »

2013-04-04 13:01:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you don't think this is a revolutionary time of accelerating change just look at a few headlines in today's tech press about the bitcoin battle, the proposed CISPA cyberthreat bill and the fact that 2.4 billion computing devices will ship this year: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238120/2.4B_computing_devices_to_ship_this_year_Gartner_says  
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238108/Privacy_group_calls_for_changes_in_CISPA_cyberthreat_sharing_bill  
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238114/Bitcoin_storage_service_Instawallet_suffers_database_attack http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238118/Mt._Gox_under_largest_DDoS_attack_as_bitcoin_price_surges  

2013-03-28 15:13:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Join us for a White House Hangout on the Maker Movement. On Thursday, March 28th at 3:00 pm ET, White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil will discuss the #Maker  Movement with leading innovators and Makers from around the country.

You can watch the Hangout live on the White House Google+ page, and join the conversation with the hashtag #WHHangout .

2013-03-13 23:32:51 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-07 00:30:57 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-02-26 13:05:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

UN Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo has asked Markus Kummer to serve as Interim Chair for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Open Consultations and Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) meetings. In this role, Markus will work with the MAG to prepare for the IGF 2013 meeting to be held in Bali, Indonesia, from 22 to 25 October. IGF Open Consultations and MAG meetings are taking place in Paris this week. Markus is former leader of the IGF Secretariat, now a leader for the Internet Society. This move will give more stability to IGF and leads to more hope for its future.

2013-02-04 19:35:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-15 12:01:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Whatever the reason, you helped fight for Internet freedom, and you’ve become an inspiration to people all over the world. Some are calling January 18th Internet Freedom Day. Let’s get started early by taking a moment to share these accomplishments with ..well... the Internet: Share this celebratory image now! 

2013-02-18 19:34:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

See the new video that tells the story of Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center, its work and its people, and hear from Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Steve Crocker, Esther Dyson, Bruce Schneier, Mitchell Baker, Tan Tin Wee, Bob Pepper, danah boyd, Lynn St.Amour, Raul Echeberria and more. http://youtu.be/xU7dvJWHv9U

2012-12-30 13:07:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

... functional magnetic resonance brain imaging (fMRI) can look inside the skull of volunteers lying still inside the claustrophobic, coffinlike confines of a loud, banging magnetic scanner. The technique relies on a fortuitous property of the blood supply to reveal regional activity. 

Neuroscientists routinely exploit fMRI to infer what volunteers are seeing, imagining or intending to do. It is really a primitive form of mind reading. Now a team has taken that reading to a new, startling level.

A number of groups have deduced the identity of pictures viewed by volunteers while lying in the magnet scanner from the slew of map­like representations found in primary, secondary and higher-order visual cortical regions underneath the bump on the back of the head.

#sciencesunday  

2012-12-02 12:27:31 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

The 2012 approach to helicopter parenting - do it with a real helicopter. CBC News reports on a dad who built a drone helicopter based on the Arduino open-source programming platform to follow his son to the bus stop. It is equipped with GPS tracker and a smartphone running a video chat application: http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/11/geek-dad-builds-helicopter-to-follow-his-son-to-the-bus-stop.html ... via +Brian Rose #ScienceSunday 

2012-11-04 12:53:11 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

BEST UNDERGRAD EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTING SCIENCES? My daughter, Kacie Anderson, a high school senior, is planning to major in computer science and have a career as an engineer/leader innovating for the future. She's seeking an undergraduate program at which students gain the most value and experiential learning in addition to doing the kind of human networking with peers, faculty, alumni, friends to the institution that gives talented people an edge. What's your advice?

2012-10-15 13:44:24 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

+Mike Elgan has always been G+'s biggest booster. Here he explains why it is a great blogging platform: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232329/Why_I_blog_on_Google_And_how_

2012-07-27 11:17:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

“Bricks and Clicks,” NEW Elon University-Pew study on the future of the Internet and higher education shows that some people believe the economy + market dynamics + technological change will push universities' future to massive online/face-to-face education divide. http://pewinternet.org/ 

SAMPLING from some responses to the survey:
Mike Liebhold: “Under foreseeable economic conditions, traditional classroom instruction will become decreasingly viable.” Tapio Varis: “Traditional face-to-face higher education will become a privilege of a few.” Peter Pinch: “Some institutions will focus on facilitating virtual environments and may lose any physical aspect; others will focus on high-value face-to-face interactions - group discussions, labs - and will shed commodity teaching activities like large lectures." Hal Varian: “Universities should, and I hope will, focusmore on ‘how to lear... more »

2012-07-20 15:11:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

BIG Data - what it is and WHY you should care: See hundreds of expert opinions from NEW Elon University-Pew study on the future of the Internet and Big Data: http://bit.ly/M9Fjtj

Patrick Tucker: Big Data is "giving rise to the knowable future...turning prediction into an equation." David Weinberger: "Some of our most important knowledge will be truths we can't understand because our pathetic human brains are just too small." M. Suelzer: "We can now make catastrophic miscalculations in nanoseconds and broadcast them universally." Ross Rader: "We will develop the tools and understanding necessary to turn the rise of Big Data into a positive force." Paul Jones: "By 2020 behaviors and actions surrounding Big Data will be normalized and a lot less scary." Barry Chudakov: "By 2020 our every movement (or click or emotion) is someone's... more »

2012-07-19 17:28:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

First launched in 1975, BYTE was the flagship magazine of the personal computer era and remained a highly popular and acclaimed voice in consumer technology until it was shut down in 1998. Byte's back as of last week.

Executive news editor Eric Mack took a moment from his busy day covering next generation consumer technology to introduce Byte's readers to Futurists:Beta Launch and WorldFuture 2011. Thanks for this great piece Eric, I couldn't have put it better myself. Check out byte at http://www.informationweek.com/byte/

2012-07-05 19:22:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

NEW survey from Pew Internet and Imagining the Internet: How far will tech firms go in helping repressive regimes? Experts say they hope the drive for corporate social responsibility (CSR) will have moved forward by 2020, but many expect this will not be the case. “Most companies will publicly state that they are doing everything possible to protect citizens while making countless concessions and political decisions that will end up harming citizens,” observed danah boyd, senior researcher with Microsoft Research. Read more here: http://bit.ly/NbAUpW 

2012-07-01 20:40:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New Elon University/Pew Internet "Future of the Internet" survey finds experts think tech-enhanced homes/utilities will gradually evolve by 2020, but many say we won’t be living in Homes of the Future http://bit.ly/MvsSLx

2012-06-07 12:23:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Gamification? According to our Pew Internet/Elon University survey, some people hate the term, many say it's a fad, but many say that interactivie game layers will be much more prevalent in our lives by 2020, with positive and negative results: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_gamification_2020.xhtml

2012-05-01 19:53:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Jimmy Wales says "Hollywood will be destroyed and nobody will notice" - keynote at Global INET conference. Transcript and story with video clips are here http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/isoc_20th_2012/jimmy_wales_keynote.xhtml Key video clip: http://youtu.be/NNv5nKonP90

2012-04-26 23:21:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

AMAZING experience Monday night, being one of a handful of people who got the opportunity to be at the private induction ceremony for the inaugural class of the Internet Hall of Fame. This video should go viral with geeks: Leonard Kleinrock's acceptance, written in poetic form reminiscent of Dr. Seuss: http://youtu.be/oAIrtZwdEYw see more HOF acceptance speeches here: http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Note.aspx?id=959759

2012-04-22 10:01:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My project, Elon University's Imagining the Internet, is doing documentary multimedia reporting from the Internet Society's 20th Anniversary Global INET Conference in Geneva now through Wednesday. Photos from the ongoing "Leadership" and "Global Chapters" meetings are now posted in a series on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elonuniversity/sets/72157629741873033/ with more to come!

2012-04-17 19:00:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Top experts in new Pew FUTURE of the Internet survey - http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_money_device_swipe_2020.xhtml - said while smartphone transactions COULD become predominant payment form for many by 2020, the advancement of cash in the cloud is likely to be stymied by the legacy system's big profits. +John Smart said “In 2020 corporations will be happy to milk oldsters for exorbitant check and credit card handling rates—as they do today.” 65% said it's possible, but many hedged their answers due to infrastructure, human uptake and security questions.

2012-04-16 15:31:18 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looking forward to leading a team of 12 from the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University to do documentary multimedia journalism at the Internet Society's 20th Anniversary Global INET conference in Geneva April 22-24. Great speakers and panels. Keynotes from Jimmy Wales, Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, Mitchell Baker, Lynn St. Amour and more. http://www.internetsociety.org/events/inet-conferences/global-inet-2012

2012-04-06 11:56:23 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

HOW could MITx and similar moves change higher ed? From Inside Higher Ed: Massively open online courses, or MOOCs are increasingly part of the national conversation about change in higher education, as high-profile institutions such as MIT and at Stanford University have anted up and gained huge followings; nobody is worried that MITx will fizzle out. The greater question is: What if MITx is too successful?

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/06/how-could-mitx-change-mit#ixzz1rGDTJMeN
Inside Higher Ed

2012-03-29 13:40:01 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Vint Cerf tells the UK Telegraph at Bradford’s National Media Museum, which will look specifically at the impact of the Web on life in Britain: “I am very concerned we won’t understand the evolution of technology and its impact on society if we don’t try to record what’s going on. It’s not just a matter of factual record, it’s analysis and insight into how things change as a result of technology.”

2012-03-29 09:45:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://9to5google.com/2012/03/28/google-self-driving-car-user-00000001-video/

2012-03-29 09:36:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wikipedia has had a decline in new active editors that began in 2007. "While just as many productive contributors enter the project today as in 2006, they are entering an environment that is increasingly challenging, critical, and/or hostile to their work."

2012-03-25 17:30:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

WHAT IF we could identify thousands of new paths out of poverty around the world, simply by playing a game? April 3-5 the Rockefeller Foundation will host a 48-hour global public online game, CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE, open to EVERYONE, anywhere. Sign up to play at http://catalyze4change.org and follow along on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/catalyze4change and on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/Catalyze4Change.

2012-03-23 13:52:24 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"App-potatoes?" Some say mobile culture, appification, are going to cramp the Web's style. What do you think? 1,000 people responded to a Pew Internet-Elon University survey on this topic. See what they said. Report is here: bit.ly/GJOtie
Hundreds of responses are here: http://bit.ly/GQmZGR (credited) and http://bit.ly/GJ6pqU (anonymous).

2012-03-19 22:11:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Pew Internet report released by Amanda Lenhart today confirms what I'd already guessed after watching my teenage daughter and her friends: teens are texting more frequently and talking less on phones. Only 23% own a smartphone; those over 16 are most likely to own. Study: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Teens-and-smartphones.aspx

2012-02-29 13:13:04 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Pew Internet/Elon University report on Generation AO - Always On just released tonight: http://www.pewinternet.org/. FOR FULLEST DETAILS go to: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/default.xhtml
Teens-to-20s to benefit and suffer due to 'always-on' lives. Being Hyperconnected: Brain Gain or Drain? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/29/gen-y-may-end-up-intellectual-lightweights-because-of-technology-pew/

2012-01-29 13:23:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Check out this comprehensive listing of Google's work in the education space. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/resources-to-support-new-and-open-world.html

2012-01-05 12:44:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

IS THE INTERNET A HUMAN RIGHT? Internet pioneer and Google VP Vint Cerf says in a Jan. 4 NYT Op-Ed that it is not, but its engineers have a responsibility to empower users: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html. Cerf discussed the Internet as a human right with @imagineinternet in a series of short video interviews at IGF 2010: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/survey_human_right.xhtml

2012-01-03 21:29:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Very cool for 2012 SHAPE-UP! The Reddit Guide to Fitness INFOGRAPHIC http://socialtimes.com/the-reddit-guide-to-fitness-infographic_b87173 Here's a small part of a much longer graphic that includes exercise advice, too:

2012-01-03 01:47:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

What could have been in the commonwealth this year, but is not

The natural home for ideas and creations is in the commonwealth, the public domain. We cleverly give the creators of ideas and art and inventions a temporary monopoly for their creations outside of the commonwealth in order to encourage them to make more new things. That is good. For a while that temporary period in the US was 58 years after the work was created for copyright and 17 years for patents.

Unfortunately, as creators became corporations, they have lobbied for laws (and financially supported the elections of lawmakers) that have extended the "temporary" period till it is in effect, unlimited for copyright.

That means that many works of film, literature, and music that ordinarily would have gone into the public domain this year (ones finished by 1955) will not. This page... more »

2012-01-03 01:46:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor - http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402929_text
On December 21, 2011, the governmental portal dedicated to official publication of laws and other legal acts issued in the Republic of Belarus published Law No. 317-3... The newly published Law imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites by Belarusian citizens and residents. Under this new Law, the violation of these rules is recognized as a misdemeanor and is punished by fines of varied amounts, up to the equivalent of US$125... The Law requires that all companies and individuals who are registered as entrepreneurs in Belarus use only domestic Internet domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging email messages. It appears that business requests from Belarus cannot be served over the Internet if the service provider is using online... more »

2011-12-05 18:32:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Vint Cerf says Internet governance is critical; "we have serious work to do": http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221801/Cerf_calls_Internet_governance_critical_issue_in_high_tech VIDEO: http://youtu.be/bWL23IbWOvo

2011-12-01 13:10:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Institute for the Future's graphic "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021"

Brief description: Invisibility cloaks. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A Facebook for genes. These were just a few of the topics IFTF explored at the recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the "Future of Science." The map focuses on 6 big stories of science: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter and Engineered Evolution. http://linksfromthefuture.blogspot.com/2011/11/multiverse-of-exploration-future-of.html

2011-11-27 22:41:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Chris Anderson of TED discusses how what he calls Crowd-Accelerated Innovation is being driven by web-based video sharing, creating a self-fueling cycle of learning: http://youtu.be/LnQcCgS7aPQ

He shares great specific examples of how people are stepping up their game in all fields because they have been inspired by powerful images of others performing well.

2011-11-27 22:30:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Because it's occasionally useful: my Cosmology Primer, complete with FAQ. http://preposterousuniverse.com/writings/cosmologyprimer/

2011-11-18 15:33:29 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

European Parliament votes on net neutrality Nov 17, 2011
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2125866/european-parliament-votes-favour-net-neutrality: The European Parliament voted in favor of adopting its resolution http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-2011-0572&language=EN on Net Neutrality. This vote states: "[The European Parliament] calls further on the Commission to ensure that Internet service providers do not block, discriminate against, impair or degrade the ability of any person to use a service to access, use, send, post, receive or offer any content, application or service of their choice, irrespective of source or target."

2011-11-13 20:41:03 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET? A team from Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center conducted interviews at the Global Internet Governance Forum, asking eight questions. More than 500 video clips with answers from leaders from ICANN, ISOC, IGF, Google, Microsoft, Cisco and more have just been posted: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2011/default.xhtml

2011-10-30 14:37:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2011 "Future of the Internet" Invitation

The non-profit, global-good Pew Internet Project and Imagining the Internet Center facilitate regular expert illumination of the likely future evolution of the Internet based on what we know today. We are delving into new issues and your participation is highly valued.

Among the topics being addressed in this high-level expert discussion are: the future of money, the influence of Big Data, the fate of "smart systems," the influence of corporate responsibility, teens-tech-human potential, the impact of ICTs on higher education, the influence of gamification, and apps vs. the Web and which will dominate. The results will be made public online in free reports aimed at helping inform our future.

You will find the questions here:
http://survey.fs.elon.edu/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.cgi?9JREK7

If you... more »

2011-10-28 20:04:46 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 0 +1s)

Google+ Ripples!

Share this post publicly and watch how it spreads!
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2011-10-28 17:53:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Opportunity ends Monday! SHARE YOUR WISDOM about tech's influence!
FUTURE OF THE INTERNET INVITATION FROM PEW RESEARCH
Web-based questions about the influence of gamification, apps vs. the Web, Big Data, the future of money, fate of "smart systems," influence of corporate responsibility, teens-tech-human potential, impact of ICTs on higher ed. Results will be made public online, free.
You can make sure your voice is heard by responding here:
http://survey.fs.elon.edu/surveys/63H8FA