On The Daily Bit will find this interesting video and explanation of The Known Universe is a new film produced by the American Museum of Natural History, which is part of a new exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art New York City.
Look at the dark and, to fully enjoy the show, bring it to full screen in high definition version !
Horizon Report 2010: which technologies will take between universities 1-3-5 years?
mobile computing, open content, e-books, simple augmented reality, gesture-based computing and visual data analysis : are areas of development technology adoption by universities according to the 2010 edition of the observatory project Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and Educause Learning Initiative.
The seventh edition of the annual Horizon Report will be officially presented January 19 in Austin, Texas , but is already available online n how open content (see below for URL). The Centre identifies and describes the technology (or technology areas) that are most likely to have a major impact on teaching and research in academic institutions around the world. The annual report is produced through an extensive review of the press and research literature, supported by numerous interviews with teachers, administrators of universities and companies.
The working group involving representatives of 10 countries from five continents: USA, Britain, China, Spain, Germany, Nigeria, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Japan.
For several years the project has also issued specific comments: in 2009 it published a Horizon Report on Economic Development, with a focus on trends in technology adoption in the business.
Beyond the verification of the forecasts contained in the observatory, and constraints against the need to "regionalize" the identification of certain trends (limit you are trying to overcome), the report is always of great interest to the enormous bibliography and resources which makes available to all and for the analysis of organizational and cultural gap that may delay the adoption of different technological systems.
