Alan Levine • Vice President Community & CTO
The New Media Consortium (NMC)
Salem State College Future is Now conference, May 13, 2009
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- Did You Know 2.0?
video by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U - Changing Perceptions of Work
in these times... http://graphjam.com/2009/02/04/song-chart-memes-happy-job/ - Technology is...
wisdom of Alan Kay http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/02/everything_that.php - The "N" Word
"natives vs immigrants" sigh http://www.google.com/search?q=digital+natives+immigrants - Net Gen Nonsense
an adamant non-believer http://netgennonsense.blogspot.com/ - Generations Online in 2009
Pew Internet American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/275/report_display.asp - Under Thirty
part of Interesting Snippets http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/904636334 - Someone Once Told Me
Personal sharing of what people have been told http://www.someoneoncetoldme.com/ - Immersion
NY Times shows just how focused young video-game are http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/magazine/1194833565213/immersion.html - Who Are the Gamers?
maybe not who you think... http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2407005993/ - Meet the Zimmers
never too old to rock http://www.thezimmersonline.com - Their Generation
stick around for the smashing end... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY - The MediaScape
by Michael Wesch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU - Dumbest Generation?
book by Mark Bauerlein http://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Generation-Stupefies-Americans-Jeopardizes/dp/1585426393 - Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Atlantic article by Nicholas Carr http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google - Everything Bad is Good For You
The counter argument from Steven Berlin Johnson http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573223077/stevenberlinj-20 http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/ - Pond Skaters?
balanced view? http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2583028315 - It's Not the Same Anymore: TV
The death of TV as I Knew it. Flickr photo by Kevin Steele http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsteele/2407681621 http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/20/tv/ - Peter Hirshberg on TV and the Web (TED)
How tweens describe TV http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_hirshberg_on_tv_and_the_web.html - The New TV
popularity is not what it once was http://www.urlesque.com/2009/04/07/the-100-most-iconic-internet-videos/ - Lip Sync Not Always a Bad Thing
The lip dub meme http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1820582 - It's Not the Same Anymore: The Phone
"long distance"? gone are the landlines. Flickr photo by mundocaudro http://www.flickr.com/photos/95843480@N00/132804919/ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless200905.htm - It's Not the Same Anymore: email
remember when one address was enough? Flickr photo by Andreas Demmelbauer http://www.flickr.com/photos/21514141@N00/282196030/ http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/next-tech-email-is-dead.html - It's Not the Same Anymore: Staying in Touch
How are we managing? Flickr photo by geirarne http://www.flickr.com/photos/18155385@N00/424583174/ - Staying in Touch: Facebook in the World
is that world flat or what? http://thekillerattitude.com/2008/06/facebook-statistics-and-google-motion.html - It Seems the Same: School
how? http://www.flickr.com/photos/34017702@N00/74907741/ - School and Relevance
and not just in math http://graphjam.com/2008/12/27/song-chart-memes-geometry/ - A Vision of Students Today
by Michael Wesch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o - Collective Intelligence
featured in 2008 Horizon Report http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collective-intelligence/ - Scholarly Use of Wikipedia
research, adding to collective intelligence http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2008/10/01/making-wikipedia-work - Patients Like Me
Crowdsourcing health issues/treatments http://www.patientslikeme.com - Path101
"Community powered career discovery" http://www.path101.com - Ten Year Old Changes the World
25 Days to Make a Difference http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com/ - Online Video Explosion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2422208606 - Is YouTube the Next Google?
finding out how to do stuff http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_youtube_the_next_google.php - DIY in Video Form
How to charge in iPod with electrolytes and and onion! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPJeDssBOM - Instructables
informal user generated learning http://www.instructables.com - Spare Time
Is this how people spend their spare time? flickr photo by d4vidbruce http://www.flickr.com/photos/d4vidbruce/334675411/ http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1549394,00.html - Culture of Creativity
people use their free time to create media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4-QLiwyLgM - New Ways to Collaborate
YouTube Symphony Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/symphony - You Tube Context Collapse
Michael Wesch on Ethnograpy of YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU - 2009 Horizon Report
http://horizon.nmc.org/- Near Horizon
Less than a year http://horizon.nmc.org/ - Mobiles
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/mobiles/ - Cloud Computing
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/cloud-computing/ - Mid Horizon
Two to Three Years http://horizon.nmc.org/ - Geo-Everything
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/geo/ - The Personal Web
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/personal-web/ - Far Horizon
Four to Five Years http://horizon.nmc.org/ - Semantic-Aware Applications
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/semantic-aware-apps/ - Smart Objects
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/chapters/smart-objects/
- Near Horizon