Category Archives: Future

Technology foresight and organizational change: A CHAT perspective

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

This is part one of a two-part article. See the second part, Hypothetica does foresight – an illustrative hypothetical case of CHAT analysis, here. Foresight researchers and evaluators tell us that technology foresight programs (TFP) produce outcomes in three stages: the … Continue reading →

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Four unexpected ways artificial intelligence will influence education – Are we ready for this?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

Stephen Hawking recently published a brief op-ed on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Independent. In it he discusses possible implications of rapidly developing AI and the need to prepare for the changes it will bring. Media decided to put its … Continue reading →

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Smoothing space for collaboration and innovation

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

I delivered a keynote at an eTwinning workshop being held in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend. My slides are below. The context (i.e. what I said as opposed to only what’s in the slides) is that knowledge creation is dependent on … Continue reading →

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Is innovative thinking in education “dangerous”?

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

The College Development Network in Scotland hosted a “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” on education a couple of weeks ago (see also the festival blog here). As per their website, the goal of the festival was to: “to re-establish the importance … Continue reading →

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The problem with the “future of education”

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

There’s been a lot of interest in the future of education in recent years. We see this in the “schools of the future”, “classrooms of the future”, funding opportunities to develop “Education for Tomorrow” and numerous foresight programs focusing on … Continue reading →

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OMNI, visionary magazine of yore, is now available online

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

The Internet Archive has made available several, if not all, issues of OMNI Magazine which was first published in 1978 and continued with some breaks and, eventually, as an online magazine til 1998. OMNI Magazine published a unique blend of … Continue reading →

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