The MOOC movement is not an indicator of educational evolution – O’Reilly Radar
Canned online courses as transitional media, like films of stage plays.
an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
The MOOC movement is not an indicator of educational evolution – O’Reilly Radar
Canned online courses as transitional media, like films of stage plays.
Symbionomics: The Blog: The Core of MetaCurrency
“The ability to record stuff that happened in the real world, and derive useful information from those records (such as account balances, or average user ratings) is obviously very powerful. Just being in the business of 3rd party record keeping can concentrate massive amounts of wealth (just look at the banking industry). What’s more, as the failure of many local currencies has shown us, this architecture can be highly fragile, subject to the petty personal politics that so often run rampant in activist circles. What if we had a way to perform all the same functions, but without the middle man? What if our records could be distributed in such a way that they couldn’t be tampered with, and privacy was still protected? We believe this shift would open up vast new possibilities for how we organize ourselves economically, as well as offer a resilience to our economy heretofore unrealized. “
“When you’re operating on someone else’s network…”
Peer-to-peer currency exchange puts users in control – Springwise
“CurrencyFair is a fully regulated online marketplace that lets ordinary people exchange currencies with other people anonymously, at rates typically available only to multinationals and market professionals. … What markets remain ripe for a dose of peer-to-peer innovation?”
TeleHash / JSON + UDP + DHT = Freedom
“A new wire protocol enabling applications to connect directly in a real-time and fully distributed manner, freeing them from relying on centralized datacenters”