This document discusses how digital and mobile technologies have changed people's lives and who they are. It suggests that while tools shape us, we also shape the tools we create. Many anecdotes and quotes are provided about how smartphones and apps have enabled new forms of social connection, creativity, learning and self-expression on the go. Experts discuss both the benefits of these changes as well as calls for ensuring technologies serve human purposes and do not become addictive or replace in-person interaction.
34. Mobile communications !
…are already beginning !
to change the way people !
meet, mate, work, war, !
buy, sell, govern and create.!
howard rheingold
46. We are in a networked society now…!
and there’s no going back…we should !
promote learning through networks, !
not curriculum!
steve wheeler!
@timbuckteeth
195. A tool is something you make !
so that someone else can!
MAKE SOMETHING
@berkun
196. EPIC WORK
comes from making a deeper
to who we are
& finding a MEDIUM to EXPRESS it well
to OTHERS
@berkun
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205. The fact that so many of us are
writing — sharing our ideas, good
and bad, for the world to see —
has changed the way we think.
Just as we now live in public, so
do we think in public.
“Thinking Out Loud”, Clive Thompson
259. I don’t think EDUCATION is about
centralized instruction anymore…!
it’s the process of!
establishing oneself as a NODE
in a broad NETWORK of
distributed !
CREATIVITY
@joi, MIT
275. I want to be very careful about judging
and how much to generalize
about the use of media being pathological.
For some people, it's a temptation
and a pathology;
for others, it's a lifeline.
-howard rheingold