“The Federal Government is extremely serious about getting the United States to have digital textbooks in every child’s hands in five years”
—http://www.knewton.com/blog/knewton/from-jose/2012/03/29/digital-textbooks/
March 2012
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Champagne Infographic
A good infographic about one of the most famous wine.
Brought To By Wine.com, Purveyors of Fine Wine and Champagne
The end of printed encyclopedia →
techland.time.com
Enciclopedia Britannica has chosen to stop the printed version, and it will be only in the digital form. Also in Italy “Corriere della Sera”, one of the most important newspaper, maybe will be published only in digital from 2014. That demonstrate how we are changing the way we learn, printed-knowledge is ended, wikipedia is the new master of knowledge. Expensive and heavy books will expire but free and social content will grow up. Is now necessary a way for a correct filtration of the big amount of data.
“Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see.”
—Rework - 37signals
“For 37signals, things like speed, simplicity, ease of use, and clarity are our focus. Those are timeless desires. People aren’t going to wake up in ten years and say, “Man, I wish software was harder to use.” They won’t say, “I wish this application was slower.”
—Rework - 37signals
“Gamification: the use of game design elements in non-game contexts.”
—gamification-research.org
