Here’s some questions I might like to address in my final project:
- How will younger generations integrate and be affected by new media?
- How does technology impact their cognitive processes as they develop during childhood years?
- Will this technology make them smarter or less perceptive?
- How can education be integrated into this new media effectively?
- How will this change the way future generations function and interact as a society?
- What is the impact of collective intelligence?
- How are wiki and open source communities shaping the way people share and create knowledge?
- What technologies are enabling this collective intelligence?
- What does this say about us as people? That we like to share? That we learn best from others? That there is power in numbers?
- How does this affect the economy and globalization?
- Who truly benefits from collective intelligence, and can it really be trusted?
- Will the Web become the giant ‘Machine’ that so many have predicted will control and organize our world?
- How is the Web 2.0 craze changing the way people behave online?
- Is this virtual now more of a reality than our actual world?
- How does life on the web enhance or diminish the way people interact with each other?
- Who controls this ‘Machine’? Is there any control at all?
- Are there any other possible technologies or innovations that could serve us better for this purpose?
Domains/Keywords
- Children & Technology
- Technology & Education
- Emerging technology
- Developmental psychology
- Computers & Cognition
- Integrating technologies in future societies
- Tech toys
- New media
- HCI
- Computer interaction as a replacement for human interaction
- Wiki communities
- Blogging
- Social networks
- Wikipedia
- Collective Intelligence
- Converging Media
- Open Source Communities
- Search Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Web 2.0
- Information Creation & Organiziation
- Information Age vs. Age of Ideas
- What is real? What is virtual? Does the difference matter?
- Globalization
- Economy
- New Business Models
- R&D
- Media Ethics
- Super Computers
- Creative Commons
- CC Learn
- MIT Open Course Listings
- One computer per child
- Politics and democracy
- Do ‘purely original’ ideas exist anymore? If not, is this a problem?
- Privacy
- Global Brain
- Gestalt Principle – The whole is better than the sum of its parts
- Control of the media or lack thereof
- E-commerce: amazon, ebay, etc.
- Grassroots approaches/democratization
Here’s a Venn Diagram Showing how all these questions/domains are related. They all have a lot of ideas in common with each other, so I wasn’t sure how else I could present a diagram besides this way:
