The biggest migration in human history. The entire flow of African slaves was less than 15m, spread over decades. This is 100m in less than a generation and many more to come.
Tag: globalization
Math Education
combating innumeracy with 3D worlds: moving math from 2D symbols to 3D representations
For the first time since Euclid started the mathematics education ball rolling over 2000 years ago, we are within a generation of eradicating innumeracy and being able to bring out the mathematical ability that research has demonstrated conclusively is within (almost) everyone’s reach. Never before in the history of mathematics have we had a technology that is ideally suited to representing and communicating basic mathematics. But now, with the development of manufactured, immersive, 3D environments, we do.
2008-03-22:
it may be time to rethink the very idea of national teaching systems that with varying success prepare youngsters to join a global conversation when they grow up.
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Personalized fashion
A trip to the FIT museum with its 1000s of fashion pieces from 500 years made me wonder why we can’t have it all? Where is the startup that lets me pick whatever I like from a catalog that spans the centuries, takes my measurements and then produces the garments in a fully automated factory? Failing that, how about leveraging that same labor that now brings us crappy jeans? A catalog so vast my require some recommendation technology to help me make picks, too.
Seefeld points to coco myles. Wired reports on a 3D scanner for taking body measurements.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 