A real fear exists that, sooner than we might imagine, we will be taken over by the machines we make, the robots we build, and the technology we attach ourselves to. It can be pretty scary. We learned about one version of this future in Star Trek, with The Borg which gave a decidedly negative picture of how this would all turn out.
Those developing online learning can’t afford to be just “afraid” of change…technology does advance and become more capable, and for some activities being “plugged in” efficiently moves the potential for learning forward. Thinking about “Understanding Media”, and what it does to us, and what we can do with it, is part of solving this equation of the future, and something we should know about.
Here’s a Mashable story on two guys with weird appendages, and what differences they make, as we anticipate the next version of Virtual Reality “wearables” and embedded chips, sensors, antennas and whatever else we can learn to “need” “inside” our biological package.
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