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niall winters
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Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Technologies
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. ...... Ubiquitous computers will also come in different sizes, each suited to a particular task. My colleagues and I have built what we call tabs, pads and boards: inch-scale machines that approximate active Post-It notes, foot-scale ones that behave something like a sheet of paper (or a book or a magazine), and yard-scale displays that are the equivalent of a blackboard or bulletin board." ---The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weisner The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not the technology itself, but its relationship to us. ---Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, Xerox We are moving from a paradigm in which the computer is a tool embodied in a device to one in which the computer creates an environment which assists the individual in context. Current Technologies
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