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All about the Fifth Cycle of Technology – in a short lecture.

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• What futurists are saying about, well … the future (nationalpost.com)

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation.

via July 7, 1752: Jacquard’s Loom Will Weave a Durable Web | This Day In Tech | Wired.com.

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• Photo Gallery: Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today (wired.com)

Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation | Techdirt.

“Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig’s own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use. Lessig, of course, is a lawyer, and a big supporter of fair use, so it’s no surprise that he’s also said he’s going to be fighting this. ”

As far as I can tell, this is the video presentation in question:

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Okay, I have been known to write about the “big ass table” in sarcastic posts. I was set to let loose on it again, but here is an elementary teacher who has used the device in a literacy project. When the table is used with thought and appropriately, it demonstrates that the media is the message. The process of working with the archival materials is transformed into a new kind of learning experience because of the interaction of content with medium.

Students viewed and organized archival videos and images of Victorian England on the SMART table, and Tom Barrett, the teacher who is blogging about using the table observes, “It is the blurring of that physical and digital space that I am intrigued with. The children passed each other video footage.”

via SMART Table in my Classroom – Pass Me That Video | Space for me to explore.

He continues, “It is the heightened sense of access and of sharing the digital imagery, combined with the fluid resize, rotate and placement controls you have that makes it a powerful learning tool.”

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In the end, my impression of Twitter was right and wrong. Twitter IS a massive time drain. It IS yet another way to procrastinate, to make the hours fly by without getting work done, to battle for online status and massage your own ego.

But it’s also a brilliant channel for breaking news, asking questions, and attaining one step of separation from public figures you admire. No other communications channel can match its capacity for real-time, person-to-person broadcasting.

via From the Desk of David Pogue – Twittering Tips for Beginners – NYTimes.com.