Moodle - Open Source Learning - Welcome to the Cloud

The open system revolution is emerging with more and more content management systems delivering highly functional tools that deploy educational content rather easily. Moodle is one of these. Customizable, intuitive, and open; the system is used by 9 million participants in 200 countries with support for 80 languages. Design learning outcomes,  test your participants, include a variety of content and compatibility is rarely an issue. Best of all you don't have to have an IT department to deploy your educational content around the globe. Welcome to the clouds - the view is awesome from here !

Moodle Presentation from Alja Sulčič on Vimeo.

Regenerative Medicine - Organ Growth From Stem Cells Emerges

This technique will be fairly common place in the very near future. The use of stem cells to generate organs that replace existing ones is here.

A New Economics - The Collapse of Retail

Recent times are revealing inefficient economic models everywhere. This is not reflective of a temporary drop in demand but a more fundamental shift touching every consumer and industry. For example, during the past decade, which saw tremendous economic activity, the retail distribution of entertainment content was overcome by new models, and the culling is not yet over with. Now comes further reorganization in the retail sector. All major retail chains are unsustainable and demonstrating their ineffiencies - most will not survive with hundreds of thousands set to close this year alone. In the U.S. nearly 19 square feet of retail exists for every man women and child: the number should be half of that. New economic models are sweeping over each and every industry. Hear more from Howard Davidowitz on the state of U.S. retail today.

Pattie Maes lab at MIT - Environmental Interaction Using Off the Shelf Technologies

Functionally utilizing information technologies day to day holds tremendous promise for the advancement of ubiquitous computing. This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.....

Transcendent Man - Kurzweil's Upcoming Film

Transcendent Man is a film about famed inventor and futurist thinker, Ray Kurzweil. The film follows Ray around the world to tell the story of his early day's as an inventor, including his influences, successes and accolades. It delves deeply into his profound predictions about the future, raising questions about our humanity, our divinity, and ultimately, our destiny.