I've written a summary of Damian Conway's talk at <br>
<a href="http://billkerr.blogspot.com/2005/07/four-funerals-and-wedding.html">http://billkerr.blogspot.com/2005/07/four-funerals-and-wedding.html</a><br>
the four funerals are:<br>
1. wires<br>
2. licensed software and custom hardware<br>
3. media as we know it<br>
4. anonymity<br>
<br>
The wedding is a device which he calls a Portable Information Media Platform (PIMP!)<br>
It will grow out of the existing mobile phone<br>
Check out Nokia phone, N91<br>
<br>
It
will be cordless, VOIP, pager, fax machine, answering machine, high
resolution camera, a movie camera which runs all the time, PDA, real
time map, internet access (news, encycopedia, library), mp3 player,
video player, games console, light switch, credit card, dating service,
a model of who you are which can be broadcast to others<br>
<br>
Coming in the next 10--15 years, highly subversive and more difficult
to justify keeping out of the classroom than rock 'n roll. <br>
<br>
PIMP is the ultimate education machine but schools would need to make some adjustments, to put it mildly<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Bill Kerr<br>
<a href="http://billkerr.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr.blogspot.com/</a><br>
<a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm">http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm</a><br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roland Gesthuizen</b> <<a href="mailto:rge@westallsc.vic.edu.au">rge@westallsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nice talk by the Futurist Dr Damian Conway was given recently at a Monash<br>Alumni breakfast. It is a 28 Mb MP3 download but one hour presentation is<br>worth listening to hear some of his creative and humorous forecasts about
<br>three technologies that will die and one that will converge over the next 10<br>years including the church that increased attendance by installing a<br>wireless hotspot.<br><br><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/alumni/events/gearing-for-success">
http://www.monash.edu.au/alumni/events/gearing-for-success</a><br><br>'Four Funerals and a Wedding: disruptive technologies and digital<br>convergence' Imagine a world where wireless technology is available<br>everywhere, where software is replaced by services, when CDs and DVDs become
<br>HVDs (Holographic Video Disks) and when the internet is used to turn on<br>light switches!<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>--<br>Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">
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