Zone of Possibility

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/hologram-lecturers-thrill-students-at-trailblazing-uk-university?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Hologram lecturers thrill students at trailblazing UK university AI-powered technology that projects lifelike avatars trialled at Loughborough University

https://www.facebook.com/helga.hambrock/posts/pfbid02PuWk4NXUTgL1gJqukjUDmrY4hxZpt5g2sENgVcWh2Z6Pe7hZjX8Ad3rNdoJDF7isl

"The ONS’s report found that “high earners are more likely to hybrid work” and that “hybrid and home working increased by income bracket”. " https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/27/midlife-peakers-resisting-return-office/ (27 May 2022 )

How midlife ‘peakers’ are resisting the return to the office London has effectively become the home working capital of the world

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/12/remote-work-return-to-office-what-is-the-future-of-work

Work remote, get paid less? The battle dividing offices will define the future of work Mobility and freedom are the new prizes for the professional working class. But some companies fail to grasp the scale and sweep of change

Is hybrid work the worst of both worlds? Evidence is piling up that it might not be - Mar 12th 2022 edition

Is hybrid work the worst of both worlds? Evidence is piling up that it might not be

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/03/03/the-future-of-work-for-google-is-hybrid-as-the-company-tells-its-workers-to-return-to-the-office-by-april-4/

The Future Of Work Is Flexible: Google Will Transition To Hybrid Work By April 4 A company email to Google employees said that with "advances in prevention and treatment, the steady decline in cases we continue to see and the improved safety measures we have implemented,” it now means that Google “can officially begin the transition to the hybrid workweek."

We Aren't Sure If (Or When) Artificial Intelligence Will Surpass the Human Mind Experts say the future of AI is uncertain, but it wouldn't hurt to prepare for the possibility of singularity.

BBC News - Hybrid working here to stay, managers say

Hybrid working here to stay, managers say The pandemic has made hybrid working the new norm for some firms, a survey suggests.

"For anyone who hasn't yet seen it, we've just published our latest special collection of papers, Global OER Graduate Network – GO-GN, all eleven papers can be found as open access on the JIME website. This collection demonstrates the maturity and diversity of the GO-GN as well as the the geographical range of GO-GN, the variety of methods its researchers use and the different perspectives they take on issues in OER and OEP."

Journal of Interactive Media in Education None

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-education-commission-how-we-can-reinvent-schools-for-the-digital-age-ltjcp75mf

What’s wrong with our schools — and how to reinvent them for the digital age On the day that The Times Education Commission began its inquiry last June Sir Kevan Collins resigned. The government’s education recovery commissioner had been asked by Boris Johnson to draw up a plan to help children to catch up on the lessons they had missed during the pandemic

https://www.facebook.com/wired/posts/10158893923478721

Synthetic Voices Want to Take Over Audiobooks As computer-generated voices become more sophisticated, the number of audiobooks—including from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—is set to explode.