Representing ‘Things to Come’: Feeling the Visions of Future Technologies

Things to come.

Technologies that power pedagogical agents and visions for the future

This article presents a vision of intelligent learning systems that use sensitive and effective pedagogical agents to deliver personal and individualized tutoring or therapy. The systems and their underlying technologies need to be powerful, yet flexible enough to deliver a wide range of media-rich interventions to individuals with vastly different needs across environments as diverse as classr...

The Shape of Things to Come

What do you do when you're doing everything right and it's still coming out all wrong? We had a case like this not too long ago, where a shop was making a spindle and bore assembly for a high precision application. The owner complained that while he was machining well within his specified -.0002 tolerance on the shaft, his parts were either causing excessive bearing loads, or worse, not fitting...

The Internet of Things to come: digital technologies and the End TB Strategy

Correspondence to Dr Dennis Falzon; [email protected] In his prescient novel of 1933—The Shape of Things to Come—the English writer H.G. Wells described the years from 1978 to 2059 as a time of profound social change, reinforced structures of global control and close scrutiny of human activity, as efforts united towards the creation of a utopian World State. From a global health perspective, the ...

The shape of things to come: the future of the shape bias controversy.

When confronted with a controversy such as the reason for the shape bias, one wonders, as Rodney King once did, ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ Is there some combination of theory and data that could be acceptable to all parties? Often such conflict resolutions come from showing the parties are talking at cross purposes and that, once one clarifies terms and meanings, they can all live toget...