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Archives For Change
The key concept in this talk needs repeating:
And this is what I’m trying to explain has happened to us in the 21st century. Somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. When I’m joking, I try and explain it happened at midnight, you see, while we were asleep, but it was midnight 15 years ago. Okay? You didn’t notice it? But basically, what they do is, they switched all the rules round, so that the way to successfully run a business, an organization, or even a country, has been deleted, flipped, and it’s a completely new — you think I’m joking, don’t you — there’s a completely new set of rules in operation. Did you notice that? I mean, you missed this one. You probably — No, you didn’t. Okay.
My simple idea is that what’s happened is, the real 21st century around us isn’t so obvious to us, so instead we spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
The following video provides another perspective on the World After Midnight:
The world has radically changed and most people are still trying to make sense of it in from a perspective that no longer exists. Where you up at midnight 15 years ago? Did you notice the change? Some of us were…so why won’t you listen to us?
Hot Type: An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Jennifer Howard closes here well written letter to publishers with asking:
You can lock up content, but you can’t close up a scholarly culture that’s more and more interested in openness. That culture won’t be satisfied with just being told that copyright is good and piracy is bad. Publishers, how will you adapt?
Howard also refers to the Academic Spring to relay the notion that the academy is ready for significant change when it comes to publishing. I sincerely hope so.
Sir Ken Robinson provides the closing statement for the LWF 12 conference under the theme “leading a learning revolution”.
Back in 2007 before the iPhone was released 90 percent of the systems that connected to the web were Windows PCs. In less than 5 years this has changed to the point that:
In 2012, Gartner projects that worldwide PC sales will reach about 400 million units in 2012, while smartphones will surpass 600 million units. Tablets will sell about 100 million units. That means that only about 35% of the new devices sold this year that will be connecting to the web will be Windows PCs.
The future of the PC is in question:
By 2015, Gartner projects PC sales will grow to over 500 million, but tablets will triple to about 300 million and smartphones will leap past 1.1 billion.
It is obvious that everyone now, and in even more so in the future, will have to develop their web sites and resources for a mobile platform. This will require a rethinking of web sites, customer services, location services and much more. It appears that only the growing pace of change is the constant for the conceivable future.
