Converging Technologies

Kaldis, Byron

doi:10.4135/9781412972093.n71

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“…We therefore expect technological convergences, e.g. such as between the GRAIN waves (Mulhall 2002, Kaldis 2010. Such convergences may exist, for example, (1) between robotics and informatics, (2) between informatics and gene technology, (3) between nanotechnology and informatics, (4) between nanotechnology and robotics, (5) between robotics and gene technology and (6) Thus, there are many potential sources for better efficiency of 3D printing.…”

Section: The Finnish Radical Technology Foresight Studymentioning

confidence: 95%

Future Industrial Platforms and Radical Technology Foresight: The Case of 3-D Printing in Finland

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Section: The Finnish Radical Technology Foresight Studymentioning

confidence: 95%

Future Industrial Platforms and Radical Technology Foresight: The Case of 3-D Printing in Finland

et al. 2014

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“…Another key trend connected to emerging technologies is the idea of convergence, the notion that many of the technologies we use will not only emerge and evolve, but also synergize in unifying ways (Kaldis, 2010). In this way, convergence occurs by building upon and integrating the qualities of previously separate technologies.…”

Section: Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable decision making for emerging educational technologies in libraries

Hayman

Smith

2015

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2 AbstractPurpose -To discuss approaches to sustainable decision making for integrating emerging educational technologies in library instruction while supporting evidence based practice.Design/methodology/approach -The article highlights recent trends in emerging educational technologies and evidence based practice, and details a model for supporting evidence informed decision-making. This viewpoint article draws on an analysis of recent literature, as well as experience from professional practice.Findings -Authors discuss the need for sustainable decision making that addresses a perceived lack of evidence surrounding emerging technologies, a dilemma that many library educators and practitioner-researchers will have faced in their own library instruction. To support evidence informed selection and integration of emerging educational technologies, a two-pronged model is presented, beginning with an articulation of pedagogical aims, alignment of technological affordances to these aims, and support of this alignment via hard evidence available in the research literature as well as soft evidence found in the environmental scan.Originality/value -The article provides an outline and synthesis of key issues of relevance to library practitioners working within a challenging and ever-changing landscape of technologies available for learning and instruction. The proposed approach aims to create a sustainable model for addressing problems of evidence and will benefit academic librarians considering emerging 3 educational technologies in their own pedagogy, as well as those who support the pedagogy of others.4

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“…According to McLuhan (2002), changes in pattern or interaction are of utmost importance: "the 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs" (p. 8). The idea of emerging technologies as related to convergence underscores the fact that many technologies we use have evolved and been synergized in a unifying way (Kaldis, 2010), building upon and integrating the qualities of previous technologies. from another standpoint, media convergence may be understood as "the flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation of multiple media companies, and the migratory behaviour of media audiences" (Jenkins, 2006, p. 2).…”

Section: Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%