Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Technology foresight
“We, the web kids…”
Today’s youth have some very interesting things to say. Who’s listening? Piotr Czerski says: We, the Web kids; we, who have grown up with the Internet and on the Internet, are a generation who meet the criteria for the term … Continue reading
How to teach robots to talk? Let them develop and learn their own language
Researchers at Sony’s Computer Lab in Paris have been working with a group of robots that have been programmed to develop their own shared language. There has been phenomenal progress in the development of machine learning in the past decade … Continue reading
Technology comes and technology goes: Overlooked lessons of technology abandonment
Sometimes it makes no sense to us why certain technologies take hold when they do and even less sense when we learn that “new” technologies turn out to be rediscovered “old” technologies. Consider cement, perhaps one of the best known … Continue reading
The future of education: Report from symposium in Iceland
The following is a somewhat quick & dirty reflection on the symposium on the future of education that I participated in in Iceland last week. I was on a panel at a symposium on the future of education held at … Continue reading
Creativity Money Love: Learning for the 21st Century
Continually increasing evidence that future thinking is being taken, or should be taken, seriously. Interesting free publication from Creative & Cultural Skills and A New Direction in the UK. We asked over 40 artists, practitioners and thinkers to address issues around … Continue reading
Symposium on the future of education
Dr. Arthur Harkins and I will be participating in a symposium on the future of education in Iceland on March 20, 2012. The symposium is hosted by the University of Iceland’s School of Education. Dr. Harkins will present on some … Continue reading
