We should want more college graduates. But we should also want fewer students at colleges with high drop-out rates.
During the Great Recession college enrollments went up. Since 2012, college enrollment has gone down. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, Spring 2013 enrollments fell 2.3 percent from last year. The drop-off has sped up since the Fall.
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The Internet of Things is nothing simpler than objects being connected to the internet.
Six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet by 2015. The internet of things is nothing simpler, and more stunning, than objects being connected to the internet. At its most mind-blowing, these objects are learning and adapting to the behavior of the user. (Videos)
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Mobile-social
Last week was a momentous week for watching the rapid transition that is taking place from desktop computing to mobile because of Google I/O, particularly for those focused on mobile-social.
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In Upload, a new techno-thriller, a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making.
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Exploiting precious metals on the ocean floor is an idea that has been considered for decades.
A deep sea “gold rush” is a controversial new frontier for mining the ocean floor and it has moved a step closer to reality. The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called “nodules” – small mineral-rich rocks – from the seabed.
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Only 21 percent of affected children actually get treatment.
About 7 million to 12 million children in the U.S., up to 1 in 5, experience a mental-health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as the first comprehensive look at the mental-health status of American children.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: The first time I rode on a Segway, I was confused. Even though I loved the experience, I couldn’t quite figure out how it would fit into my life. It wasn’t going to replace my car and it certainly wasn’t a substitute for my bicycle, so what exactly was it?
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Flexible solar cells.
The Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC), CSIRO, and the University of Melbourne has developed a new printer that has allowed researchers at the university to print solar cells up to the size of an A3 sheet of paper. The solar cell printer makes renewable energy even easier to source.
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Electrical brain stimulation benefited subjects for months.
A small laboratory study of university students has found that random electrical stimulation, a technique that applies a gentle current through the skull, leads to a long-lasting boost in the speed of mental calculations.
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Douglas Rushkoff is a “presentist,” not a futurist. Rushkoff explains in the video that it means that he no longer is concerned with the future, because the future is merely a construct of a certain, linear way of viewing time. He argues, that the model in his book Present Shock, is no longer operable in a digital age when everything–emails, tweets, TV shows, finance–happens instantly.
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