http://www.robotvsrobot.com Jon K. - drunk on electrons Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.robotvsrobot.com/2008/12/02/bruce-sterling-about-mobililty-and-the-poor/ http://www.robotvsrobot.com/2008/12/02/bruce-sterling-about-mobililty-and-the-poor/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:28:57 +0000 Jon K. http://dietsociety.edublogs.org/?p=30 ]]> I lost this link a while ago. It's Bruce Sterling talking about (among other things) the emancipatory power of the cell phone. I think that it's something that I want to keep in mind, because not only is it great globally and socially for a bunch of reasons, but it's a really interesting thing about e-learning. Will education institutions take the bull by the horns and leverage their knowledge to provide classes and self directed learning over cell phone technology for a small fee? For instance, in the not so far off future, it would be great to have someone take a picture of a sign, have the phone-cam OCR it, access a translator, and tell you if this is the store that you intended to go to, or what's the description of that dish that looks good in the window... Language training could occur over cell phones - type in what you want to say at the end of the two hour train ride to Shenzen, and have the program teach you how to say it in Cantonese, Mandarin and use the cell phone microphone to perfect your accent.

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