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Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO

Ferreira’s decision marks the end of a nearly nine-year run at Knewton, where he strived to build technology to pinpoint what students know, don’t know and should learn next. Key to such a tool was the ability to capture data—lots of it—to adjust the feedback and...

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future is a just published book by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and author Jeff Howe. Might be considered a sequel to The Second Machine Age  which was noted in several posts here at PSA site in 2014. Here’s the blub from...

Wheeler exits FCC

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is stepping down, and the FCC will be controlled by interests whose agenda, according to their quoted statements, is dramatically different than the departing chair. Recent meetings with Tech Titans notwithstanding, the new FCC policy and rule...