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Beautiful. Just simply gorgeous Bothered :)

Even my forms of smarm are smarting after that little retort. Goes
down as a quotable quotable.

Fact is I might even quote it myself.

Industry.

Verb or noun ?

On Mar 24, 3:52 pm, botheredbybees <botheredbyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cool, here goes...
>
> With the increased casualisation of the workforce intersecting with
> broadband mobile social networks, contractors for small to medium
> businesses will be picking up skills 'on the fly' using their phones
> and global links. Literacy and numeracy will become even less relevant
> than they are even today. Mobile devices will not only be used for
> simple calculation, but for OCR and reading too:http://www.knfbreader.com/products-mobile.phpPeople with the most
> charisma and the best skills at making-it-up-as-they-go-along will be
> the (temporary) employees of choice. We could well be heading for the
> wuffie driven world painted by Cory in his magic kingdom:http://craphound.com/down/download.php
>
> Meanwhile, in a frenzy of denial, the current bastions of education
> will cozy up ever closer with big business to ensure that there are
> plenty of replaceable workers that can operate within corporate walled
> gardens, creating and consuming in-house documentation to fulfill
> their mission-critical day-to-day tasks - secure in the knowledge that
> since they're the only ones licensed to bestow degrees, they are also
> the only ones that can accurately determine the content of these
> courses.
>
> Mind you, I could be wrong. George Siemens has a much more optimistic
> take on it all here:http://www.elearnspace.org/media/worldwithoutcourses/player.html
>
> On Mar 24, 12:51 pm, rgrozdanic <rgrozda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > beautiful, shaggy - that's exactly what it looked like to me.  in 2005.
> > except for the hair cuts.
>
> > we should have a competition in talo to describe our 2020 vision...  how
> > about you start? :-)
>