Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: ICTs
Qualcomm and X Prize Foundation offer $10 million for functioning medical “tricorder”
Qualcomm and Peter Diamandis’ X Prize Foundation have announced a new X Prize for a functioning device akin to the medical Tricorder featured on the science fiction television series Star Trek. At stake is a $10 million prize for the … Continue reading
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“Learning” is built into the technology!
If I had a “quote of the day” feature, this would be on it somewhere (italics are mine): “Our charge was to accept the challenge of an Information Age and acknowledge, at the conceptual as well as at the methodological … Continue reading
New York Times crowd-sources futuring on computer technology
The New York Times is crowd-sourcing the projection of futures for computing. The NYT has set up an interactive timeline that allows readers to take part in a futuring activity on the computer technologies. The feature was published early in … Continue reading
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Seems that the Internet isn’t as bad a place as some would have us believe
Some interesting research results are coming out that suggest that perceived problems concerning youths’ use of information and communication technologies (ICT) may not be as dire as has been suggested. An article published in the most recent issue of the … Continue reading
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What makes a “future-oriented” policy? Towards a framework for identifying and analysing policies.
I have often emphasized the need for future-oriented policies in education as a response to rapidly increasing change to the extent that if I were to be asked, “Tryggvi, what are you all about?”, that would be the gist of … Continue reading
Interesting research on youths’ circumvention of age restrictions on social networking sites
danah boyd, et al. have published an interesting paper on their research youths’ use of social networking. In light of evidence showing that youth routinely circumvent age restrictions for the use of social networking technologies, the researchers decided to examine … Continue reading
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