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About Those Flying Cars We Were Promised

About Those Flying Cars We Were Promised

(keynote for June 2017 ASCUE Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC)-- At the time of this organization’s first conference gathering at Tarkio College, I was engaged in the kind of screen time kids did in the late 1960s - television. It seemed probable that in the far off future of 2017 we’d be zipping to the 50th conference in the flying cars the Jetsons promised us. While that has not panned out, much of our current technology would seem fanciful in 1968. Yet what has been most interesting then and moving ahead is less about the hardware and more about the stories, connections and relationships of the people inside the cars. Jump into the flying car of my mind to dart through back through time, ponder what makes learning memorable, find our place of wonder, and explore the power of structured serendipity as we gaze into the next 50 years.

Alan Levine

June 12, 2017
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  1. A B O U T T H O S E F LY I N G CA R S
    W E W E R E P R O M I S E D. . .
    A S C U E 2 0 1 7
    A L A N L E V I N E
    C O G . D O G • @ C O G D O G

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  2. “Tarkio College Library 1968” http://www.tarkiomo.com/college/library.htm

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  3. 1967

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  4. public domain image from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_TV.jpg

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  5. public domain image from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_TV.jpg

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  7. "First Computer I Worked On" flickr photo by cogdogblog https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/13930907969 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

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  8. function get_insp(me) {
    return me.history.comp[0].src.name;
    }

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  9. M R P I T Z
    M I L F O R D M I L L H S 1 9 8 0

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  10. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/50-years-of-the-jetsons-why-the-show-still-matters-43459669/

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  12. College and University Eleven Thirty Users Group
    C U E T U G

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  13. Association Supporting Computer
    Users in Education
    A S C U E

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  14. – B R E T V I C T O R
    “I learned the Way of the Algorithm. And I mastered these
    paths, but they were false paths. Their followers knew only the
    Yang of Technology, and worshipped the Code. But technology
    has no soul, and code no conscious. And I despaired.”
    Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/#!/Bio

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  15. 1967
    CUETUG 1
    1992 2017
    ASCUE 50
    life
    =
    mx
    +
    1967
    instructional technologist at
    Maricopa Community Colleges

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  16. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by theirhistory: http://flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4332455554/

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  17. Like a house, every paragraph in "Enquire Within" has its number,—and
    the Index is the Directory which will explain what Facts, Hints, and
    Instructions inhabit that number.

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  21. Suggestion
    of magic...
    a portal
    to the
    world of
    information
    !
    !

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  22. The
    dream
    behind
    the Web
    is of
    common
    information
    space in which
    we communicate
    by sharing
    information

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  23. Its universality is essential: the fact that a
    hypertext link can point to anything, be it
    personal, local or global, be it draft or highly
    polished.
    The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

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  24. Its universality is essential: the fact that a
    hypertext link can point to anything, be it
    personal, local or global, be it draft or highly
    polished.
    This proposal concerns the management of general
    information about accelerators at CERN. It discusses the
    problems of loss of information about complex evolving
    systems and derives a solution based on a distributed
    hypertext system.
    The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

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  27. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext
    link can point to anything, be it personal, local or
    global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a
    second part of the dream, too, dependent on the
    Web being so generally used that it became a
    realistic mirror (or in fact the primary
    embodiment) of the ways in which we work and
    play and socialize.
    The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

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  28. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext
    link can point to anything, be it personal, local or
    global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a
    second part of the dream, too, dependent on the
    Web being so generally used that it became a
    realistic mirror (or in fact the primary
    embodiment) of the ways in which we work and
    play and socialize. That was that once the state of
    our interactions was on line, we could then use
    computers to help us analyse it, make sense of
    what we are doing, where we individually fit in,
    and how we can better work together.
    The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

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  29. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

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  33. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

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  34. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

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  45. stories.cogdogblog.com

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  46. I ’ M N O T A
    S T O RY T E L L E R
    S T O R I E S ?
    cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by g-mikee: http://flickr.com/photos/g-mikee/5202927662/

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  47. S T O RY T E L L I N G ! = P E R F O R M I N G
    cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Lancaster Litfest: http://flickr.com/photos/litfest/5412498421/

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  48. T H E S H A P E O F S T O R I E S
    Kurt Vonnegut http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ

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  49. E M PAT H Y, N E U R O C H E M I S T RY, A N D
    T H E D R A M AT I C A R C
    Paul Zak: http://youtu.be/DHeqQAKHh3M

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  51. modified from flickr photo by One Thousand Words https://flickr.com/photos/1000/282987799 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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  52. Since then I’ve spoken a few
    times about the idea that by
    narrating our work, we
    can perhaps restore some
    of what was lost when
    factories and then offices
    made work opaque and
    not easily observable.
    Software developers are in
    the vanguard of this
    reintegration, because our
    work processes as well as
    our work processes are fully
    mediated by digital
    networks. But it can happen
    in other lines of work too,
    and I’m sure it will.
    flickr photo by cogdogblog https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7079008281 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

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  53. cogdogblog.com

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  54. h t t p : / / f e a t u re s . j s o m e r s . n e t / h o w - i - re v e r s e - e n g i n e e re d - g o o g l e - d o c s /
    “If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc,
    you can now play it back as if it were a movie —
    like traveling through time to look over your own
    shoulder as you write.”

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  55. re c l a i m h o s t i n g . c o m

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  56. L O S T H E R O E S

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  57. C H E C K T H E B O O K
    from BoingBoing http://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html

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  58. F O L L O W L I N K S
    from BoingBoing http://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html

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  59. K E E P F O L L O W I N G
    from BoingBoing http://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html

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  60. D I D Y O U M E A N “ R E C U R S I O N ” ?
    from BoingBoing http://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html

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  61. – J A S O N Z W E I G w w w. e d g e . o rg / re s p o n s e - d e t a i l / 1 0 1 5 3
    “In my view, we should each invest a few hours a week in
    reading research that ostensibly has nothing to do with our
    day jobs, in a setting that has nothing in common with our
    regular workspaces.”
    public domain pixabay photo: https://pixabay.com/en/bench-chairs-outdoors-park-2252563/

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  62. D A R K T I M E S
    flickr photo by Momentchensammler https://flickr.com/photos/alexander_mueller_photolover/30017549100 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

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  63. https://donottrack-doc.com/

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  64. https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/activities/protect-your-data/

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  65. https://www.commonsense.org/education/privacy/blog/five-days-of-privacy-2016-in-person

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  66. http://digipo.io/

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  67. M E E T S O M E
    I N T E R E S T I N G
    P E O P L E …

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  81. – V I R G I N I A P O S T R E L
    “How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are
    as individuals and a civilization: Do we search for stasis—a
    regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynacism
    — a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?”

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  82. FA C I N G T H E F U T U R E
    flickr photo by Eisenvater https://www.flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/

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  83. o r FA C I N G T H E F U T U R E
    flickr photo by John Pawley https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_pawley/8697122/

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  84. A B O U T T H O S E F LY I N G CA R S
    W E W E R E P R O M I S E D. . .

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  85. http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/tech/are-flying-cars-finally-becoming-a-reality/

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  86. – A L A N K AY
    “I think the trick with knowledge is to ‘acquire it, and forget all
    except the perfume’ -- because it is noisy and sometimes
    drowns out one's own "brain voices". The perfume part is
    important because it will help find the knowledge again to help
    get to the destinations the inner urges pick.”

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  87. I S I T
    A B O U T
    T H E C A R S
    AT A L L ?
    g o . c o g d o g . i t / a s c u e 1 7

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