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Domesticated Cyborgs – Kevin Kelly
By Jon Dron 7 December 2011 @ 12:02pmquietbabylon.com - A great little article by Kevin Kelly about our cyborg nature - that we create our technologies and they create us. Only a slight variant on an old theme that can be found in Dewey, Churchill and McLuhan amongst many others but, as is often the...Audio recording of the live session, Wednesday 23 Nov
By Jon Dron 23 November 2011 @ 12:41pmchange.mooc.ca - A recording of the live session for soft things, hard things and invisible elephantsAny color you like, as long as it is Blackboard
By Jon Dron 23 November 2011 @ 12:38pmjondron.athabascau.ca - I mentioned this during my talk for #Change11 today. It includes a survey I did of courses at the University of Brighton in 2005/6 where virtually all followed the default of providing announcements as the point of entry to the course, despite the...An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
By Jon Dron 14 November 2011 @ 12:29pmwww.americanscientist.org - Brian Arthur talks about his great book, 'The Nature of Technology', and summarises some of the main points. Some great stuff about the evolution of technology, particularly how it evolves through assembly, a process of combination and recombination.The Adjacent Possible
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 6:24amwww.edge.org - A talk by Stuart Kauffman in which he explains some of his thinking on the adjacent possible. His book 'Investigations' covers a great deal more of this territory at a mind-bending depth that leaves me floundering from time to time but the basic...Kevin Kelly on why the impossible happens more often
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 6:04amwww.kk.org - This is a great post on how the expansion of the adjacent possible is leading us to a richer and more connected world of ever more marvellous invention and the emergence of structures at a collective level that open up still further...Kevin Kelly on Immortal Technologies
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 6:01amwww.kk.org - Wonderful post on how technologies never really die. This means that, in the grand scheme of things, the adjacent possible keeps expanding at an accelerating rate.Learning analytics, soft and hard
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 5:58amwww.slideshare.net - A presentation for LAK11, another MOOC, talking about potential issues relating to soft and hard learning analyticsOrchestrating soft and hard technologies
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 5:57amwww.slideshare.net - A SlideShare presentation about ways to build technologies for learningChange MOOC home page
By Jon Dron 8 November 2011 @ 2:05amchange.mooc.ca - The home site for the change11 MOOC
