For 20+ years we’ve been talking about the role of computers in transforming education. Today’s iBooks announcement is another step in the right direction, especially when Apple launches with a biology book! Schiller was particularly excited about announcing a partnership with the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, saying they aim to “reinvent the biology textbookâ€.The first […]
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Celebrating the “Mother of all Demos”
I first visited San Francisco in 1985 on my way to Boston for MacWorld Expo. I returned a few months later for the west coast MacWorld. Little did I know that key pieces of the ‘revolutionary’ Mac technolgy were demonstrated in same convention center almost two decades earlier, on December 9th, 1968. It has since come […]
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Post #100
And now for something different: to celebrate reaching 100 posts over these past few months I’ll share the following letter from a friend downunder… Hello David in the USA Thankyou for your congratulations. Eighty years old – bypass surgery twelve years ago and exercises at the Synergy gymnasium. that’s my answer to ageing and I […]
Shift Happens – Australia Offers Apology to Aborigines
While ‘environmentalism’ focused mostly on the natural environment of our planet, being ‘green’ places equal importance on people. So as an Australian I was pleased to read today’s news that our newly elected government offered a formal apology to to indigenous people for past treatment: AP: CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in […]
2007 was a tipping point year. Here’s to more change in 2008!
The transition to the green economy is accelerating. I feel privileged to play a role. Happy new year!