Inspiration – week 51

In 5 years

In five years, the classroom of the future will learn about each student over the course of their education, helping students master the skills critical to meeting their goals. A system fueled by sophisticated analytics over the cloud will help teachers predict students who are most at risk, their roadblocks, and then suggest measures to help students overcome their challenges.

 

Views of the future from 20 years ago

Coming to the end of the year, a lot is often written about the future, but sometimes its also useful and interesting to look at what they thought today would look like 20 years ago…

mashable.com/2013/12/22/vintage-videos-predict-future

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed

One of the best lectures I’ve ever seen is by Bill Buxton. Below is a sample of wearable tech from 1984