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Curious Minds: Technology

6 episodes 92%4KCC

Where digital revolutions reshape learning, work, and the way we see information.

Explore how technology is transforming daily life and the future, from digital libraries and changing interfaces to new ways of learning. Drawing on ideas about information overload, contextual computing, and human-centered design, this series reveals why understanding technology means understanding how society itself is being reshaped.

Episode guide

6 episodes
1
1Library Of The 21st Century
Michael Keller, University Librarian, Stanford University, discusses the ways digitizing assets can not only preserve them, but enable them to be shared. Libraries are becoming cultural custodians opening resources to the world.
4 min
2
2Preservation & Social Media: The Digital Perspective
Michael Keller, University Librarian at Stanford University, wonders if you can save everything happening on the web and social platforms, and if you could, should you?
5 min
3
3Dealing With Information Overload
John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, provides an easy solution to a modern problem: information overload.
2 min
4
4The Power Of Technology
John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, revisits his time at the Palo Alto Research Center and his experience in developing user-centric computing systems.
3 min
5
5What Is Ubiquitous Computing?
John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, discusses the future of technology and the way society will be improved by it.
1 min
6
6Education In The Age Of Technology
John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, foresees a change of the traditional structures of learning because of technology.
3 min
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