The University is Dead. Welcome to the New Education Movement.
Feb 162012
Jan 182012
Apple’s prepping a hostile takeover of the textbook industry. Geeks, hippies, and normals can all agree. Unless you’re working for a paper publishing dinosaur, it’s basically impossible to argue that this isn’t a fabulous idea.
January 18, 2012
Apple, Internet, iPad, Mobile, Technology, Technology & Education, Terminal Anachronism, We're Already Cyborgs Already
Nov 192011
November 19, 2011
Technology, Terminal Anachronism
Oct 192011
As with the music industry and various other institutional relics, or as the internet has done to newspapers & magazines and small-time meatspace columnists, the gate-keeping model of long-format publishing is about to be sidestepped, leapfrogged, or just kind of outmoded by emerging technologies.
October 19, 2011
Internet, Technology, Technology & Work, Terminal Anachronism
Aug 162011
3.5 Days in a in a Lack-of-Data Haze. Last week I had to go do some Japanese-style camping. Skipping the horrific details, suffice it to say, I was outside the stream – I lacked data. Had insufficient information. No place in the global network. Did not like it. Since snatching up an LG-V in 2005, and the soon to follow procession of Blackberries and iPhones, I really haven’t been disconnected. At all. And I like it that way. This really was my first removal since the gradually maturing era of ubiquitous mobile data began gradually maturing. It was a bit surprising [read full post]
Jun 232011
Today I’m launching a a recurring snippet feature here at anthrobotic, The Terminal Anachronism. Presentation shall be: Terminal Anachronism: Identified Product/Process/Issue (applied verdict) For all Terminal Anachronism posts, click here. __________________________________________________________________ “Frankly, I don’t read magazines or newspapers, and if every last one of you were all erased from the planet tomorrow I would not notice and I would not care.” –Fake Steve Jobs A thought for Thursday, June 23, 2011: I was trying to remember the last time I used a newspaper or magazine for anything other than wrapping paper – it’s definitely been close to two years… Halt the [read full post]