Posted on 14th April 2010 by Judy Breck in Mobiles | Next
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If Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who says “The future of computing is mobile,” is correct, handschooling is crucial in the future of education. Mobile is hand-carried computing. Perhaps there are some who would argue that computing is unimportant in education, but that is an increasingly difficult position to defend. The rest of us think computing is huge for future education, and that advice like Schmidt’s should be taken to heart by educators. A TechCrunch article carries the interview in which Schmidt gave this sweeping prediction:
Schmidt also underscored a theme that’s grown increasingly apparent over the last few years: the future of computing is mobile. Schmidt says that businesses should have their best developers working on their mobile applications.
Educators: this means you too. What are your best developers working on today?
Posted on 22nd January 2010 by Judy Breck in Findability
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One of the giants of the network industry predicts the internet will deliver all information to all people. Speaking to Carnegie Mellon University graduates, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said:
Why is ubiquitous information so important? Why is it so important that we have access to all this? It’s a tremendous equalizer. In our lifetime literally — certainly in yours if not mine — essentially every human being on the planet will have access to every piece of information on the planet. This is a remarkable achievement. God knows what these people will do, and it’s going to be pretty amazing.
The CEO of Google is not talking about building universities on a physical campuses the way Andrew Carnegie and the Mellon family did in Pittsburgh in the boom times of the industrial age. He is telling us access to all information to all people will be through the internet.
The 2009 CMU graduates to whom Schmidt spoke are information-elites, having attended one of the world’s great universities where information is open and plentiful. Graduates in 2009 from most other universities and colleges have had less access to information through their school. The slide away from information equality is steep and fast from there to those who do not graduate or even attend traditional schools. There is no chance that we can provide ubiquitous information and the equality it delivers by building more schools across the planet.
The inequity of information delivery will be overcome! Ubiquitous information and the equality it will bring will be sped up by optimizing open access online during the five or so years ahead it will take for mobile internet access to spread to essentially everyone on earth.
Via: Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine
