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=History of Technology= =.. and Future Trends=

General Information History Future

GENERAL INFORMATION
Imagining the Internet – A History and Forecast http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org/ This is a collaborative project by Elon University, in North Carolina, and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which “aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial.”

HISTORY
Steve Jobs Interview: One-on-one in 1995 http://www.pcworld.com/article/241370/steve_jobs_interview_oneonone_in_1995.html

Retro Thing - "Vintage gadgets and technology" http://www.retrothing.com/

As Commodore 64 Turns 25, Founders Reminisce http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2231499,00.asp

Technology Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/index.html

A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/148/report_display.asp An article by the Pew Research Center

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_smiley/

Frequently Asked Questions by Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html Berners-Lee is director of the World Wide Web Consortium and is credited with creating the World Wide Web.

History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov http://netvalley.com/intval1.html

A Little History of the World Wide Web http://www.w3.org/History.html

A Brief History of the Internet http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

History of the Web Beginning at CERN by Cheryl Gribble http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.html

Internet History Archive http://internethistoryarchive.org/home.html This project is just getting started. - What Should Go in a Museum of Internet History? http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3436/what-should-go-in-a-museum-of-internet-history?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

FUTURE
Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad http://www.pcworld.com/article/245901/goodbye_textbooks_hello_ipad.html

Virtual teachers outperform real thing http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23276977/ “Digital tutors help children and adults develop advanced skills”

Emerging Technologies http://readingk12.pbwiki.com/

Latest Trends http://www.pewinternet.org/trends.asp#adoption Links to information about trends in internet usage. From the Pew Research Center

Reports: Internet Evolution http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/145/report_display.asp An article by the Pew Research Center about the future of the internet.

Ga. Researchers Teach a Robot a Service Dog's Tasks http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3441/ga-researchers-teach-a-robot-a-service-dogs-tasks?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en - (video) El-E the Robot http://www.hsi.gatech.edu/hrl/ele_video.shtml

You Can Now Use Location-Tracking Tools to Track Down Your TA's — Should You? []

The blog he refers to: Now You Can Track Colleagues and Students on Your Laptop by Jeffrey R Young “New location-tracking services may be a 'killer app' at academic conferences, if scholars don't mind some invasion of privacy” []