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Making sense of decentralizing technology As part of an Erasmus+ project I am engaged in, I recently edited together a video based on talks with Phil Komarny, talks that have occurred over the span of a few years. The particular theme coming out here, centers on Blockchain and the various ways in which blockchains might impact on higher education. This was a main theme at our World Learning Summit in 2018. Phil Komarny has been working for a long time on the implications of Blockchain particularly on US higher education. It might well be that the relevance of blockchains comes
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26th November 2017
Weeksworthy, November 25th 2017 The Atlantic Monthly — on a Saturday, not much competes with a newspaper on paper, but given how expensive it is to have The New York Times delivered to my door, and four days late, I settle for the next best: Online magazines, NYT and other reads; stuff that´s been piling up in the past week. And this week, for sure, the Atlantic Magazine story about The Education of Mark Zuckerberg tops that list: Anyone who reads on technology and innovation online, or whoever saw the movie The Social Network, will know how Mark Zuckerberg came
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31st October 2017
Disrupted: The politics of belonging David Brooks, in the New York Times this morning – October 31st, 2018: “What you see is good people desperately trying to connect in an America where bonds are attenuated — without stable families, tight communities, stable careers, ethnic roots or an enveloping moral culture. There’s just a whirl of changing stepfathers, changing homes, changing phone distractions, changing pop-culture references, financial stress and chronic drinking, which make it harder to sink down roots into something, or to even have a spiritual narrative that gives meaning to life”. There are certainly many ways to describe and
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22nd April 2017
A New York Times opinion editorial, April 20th 2017: Will we recover from the Trump presidency? Perhaps not: The thing with climate change is we don´t have much time, and not much is happening — so what happens when what little is happening gets reversed? “President Trump’s environmental onslaught will have immediate, dangerous effects. He has vowed to reopen coal mines and moved to keep the dirtiest power plants open for many years into the future. Dirty air, the kind you get around coal-fired power plants, kills people. It’s much the same as his policies on health care or refugees: Real people (the
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19th February 2017
In the News: A Time for Trump, now Dump? Just recently, I hung my grandfather’s old clock on my wall, to remind myself that there is such a thing as time, even in our times. It’s the kind of clock where you can easily reset the handles, to adjust the time shown. You needed to reset time back then. Clocks didn’t tick as accurately as they do now. You also had to wind them up, since time also wound down. That was the beauty of it: Time required human assistance in order for us to keep up with it. Otherwise, time just
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18th February 2017
What to read and what to do about it – – – A Saturday morning ritual for many years, I read the New York Times more or less from cover to cover. When I can, I do it on paper. When I can’t, and that’s most of the time, I do it online. In recent years, I have started to prefer the online version even when the paper version is available to me. As global news go, it’s changed my way of staying informed, in part because what happens when reading online is that new links and stories come to
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19th November 2016
It´s the economy, stupid: Bill said it–did Hillary listen?Sometimes you wish Bill was back, but there´s another story I have in mind right here: Not the story of how Hillary Clinton failed to take Bill Clinton´s most important piece of insight with her into her own presidential bid. Not, the story of how her failing to address the fundamentals of economic inequality in a convincing manner, led to the election of a president and subsequently a cabinet with far more of a racist inclination than what is the case with the majority of Trump voters. The majority of US voters
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11th November 2016
Peoples´choice. I read, and I try to follow the arguments. All I know is that no one — absolutely no one – has a clue. What happens next, when a man is elected president one day and the day before was generally declared either “saviour” by half of the general public or “unfit for the office of president” by the entire establishment — except for Bob Dole, News Gingrich, Rudolph Giuliani and 200 generals? No clue. And that includes The Donald himself. No clue. He says he is a genius, and that sort of settles it – seeing that his sense
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10th November 2016
As days pass by, the number of photos of Donald Trump will increase, as will the general impression they give. Less fun with his hair and more focus on the statesman. Meanwhile, these photos figured at the top of my own search right now. And the Saturday Night Live version of Donald Trump – by Alec Baldwin – is a saver.
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5th September 2016
Future Learning Lab — et forskernettverk — står bak en årlig konferanse som etter hvert samler et betydelig antall fageller — i 2015 ca. 200 og i 2016 opp mot 300 på den innledende plenumsdagen. Et par referanser her til våre konferanser i 2015 og 2016 slik Handelshøyskolen BI og interesseorganisasjonen Abelia presenterte oss: Hjemmesida vår 2016 her. BI Learning Labs hjemmesider, datert 24.april 2015: Et utdrag her fra BIs presentasjon av vår konferanse i mai 2015 — og ditto fra Abelia i 2016. — “BI samarbeider med Future Learning Lab ved Universitetet i Agder hvor de ser på nye
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3rd December 2015
A beagle – aka The Red Baron – often gets it right without even trying. Unlike the blues brooder himself – Charlie Brown – the beagle beats with an attitude — he knows how not to spend time or a dime on what you can´t change. So, here is one for me; yesterday at a meeting in Oslo, my research group Future Learning Lab got the endorsement of the ABELIA in the Norwegian Trade Organisation for our June 2016 generally rather ambitious conference. It was a good meeting. It mattered to us that Abelia and the others at the meeting went all in for
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18th October 2015
Last year living close by, I found this place because they play classical music. It’s the usual set-up in Berkeley, as in a lot of other places across this country: A bunch of people sitting at tables with one computer each, hacking away, and drinking coffee or tea while enjoying the benefits of free internet. Traffic on the outside. Traffic on the inside. It’s not your internet cafe of the 1990’s. Everyone brings their own computer these days. All these kids have broadband at home, so it’s something else. It has to be the non-action, which is also a kind of action.
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16th October 2015
About a week into my current trip to Palo Alto and Berkeley, I find myself sitting in a place I know all too well: Peet’s Coffee House on University Avenue in Palo Alto — the heart of Silicon Valley. The first one for me, way back in 2008 when I first came here. And countless visits since moving home, moving back, and then moving home again, in the summer of 2015. Here today, in Berkeley tomorrow — and most likely I will find my way to the original Peet’s Coffee House, from 1966, located on Vine Street in a very
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