Eyes on the Horizon

I've been contributing to thework on Horizon Report 2010, its due for publication in January but there is a preview available. 

The report highlights adoption of emerging technologies and trends..

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

Mobile Computing
Open Content
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Electronic Books
Simple Augmented Reality
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Gesture-Based Computing
Visual Data Analysis

Digital Media Literacy is seen as a critical challenge with the gap beween faculty and students widening.

Learning’s online fate

Learning’s online fate - The digital age challenges teachers, teaching & books
A Harvard University panel  “No More Teachers? No More Books?" (Alice Cooper has several honorary degrees). The panel comprised Harry Lewis of “Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion” (2008)
David Weinberger of “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder” (2007), Robert Darnton “The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future” (2009), Craig Silverstein - Google's Director of Technology and Sherry Turkle Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT & author of "Simulation and Its Discontents" (2009).
The conversation:

• Ubiquitous info, new social forces,
• books "a disconnected medium" (what about book clubs, librarything?),
• readers decide where topics and themes end
• experts filter and choose, the Internet is a challenge to authority.
• Universities will remain places — physical entities — in the digital age.
• The book is not dead - a million new titles a year worldwide, Not all knowledge can be captured in bytes, not all knowledge was ever captured in books,
• Survival in the workplace requires not just technical skills, but “awareness of the environment you are in.”
• the digital age is changing the way that people think, read, and learn in a university environment

Follow the links above and try to guess which panelists said what?