Zone of Possibility

21/01/2024

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

AI-powered technology that projects lifelike avatars trialled at Loughborough University

13/01/2023

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

27/05/2022

"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 )

London has effectively become the home working capital of the world

12/04/2022

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

11/03/2022

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

Evidence is piling up that it might not be

08/03/2022

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/

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."

03/03/2022

Experts say the future of AI is uncertain, but it wouldn't hurt to prepare for the possibility of singularity.

18/02/2022

BBC News - Hybrid working here to stay, managers say

The pandemic has made hybrid working the new norm for some firms, a survey suggests.

17/02/2022

"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."

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27/01/2022

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

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

27/01/2022

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

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