Monday, March 24, 2008

Connected College

Wow! I found this exciting and inspiring-the future of college is now!
Abilene Christian U is CONNECTED. Freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I once read that the technology we are just now learning to use is archaic. What is being R&D'd right now is fifty years or more advanced than what is on the market. Imaginge what WE have seen come about in just 20 to 40 years. It is my belief, based on a cacaphony of bits of information from an immeasurable number of sources, that our technological advances have reached an exponential growth rate. If this is the case, what will be discovered within the next decade will put us hundreds, if not thousands of years ahead of what we utilize right now. MAJOR medical breakthroughs are happening almost weekly, especially in genetic research, they have now built nano cars and nano engines, a new chip has been announced that mimics the electro-chemical neuroprocessing of the human brain...the list goes on. I wonder how soon it will be before knowledge can be simply downloaded into our minds.