Holistic Quantum Reality? No, I'm not kidding.

The link:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/holistic-quantum-relativity-hqr?hl=en

Vasudaiva Kutumbhakum

The Entire World is One Family

Here's why I'm not kidding:

The linked in profile of the founder and thought leader:
DK Matai is an engineer turned entrepreneur, value investor and philanthropist with a keen interest in the well being of global society. DK founded mi2g in 1995, the global risk specialists, in London, UK, whilst developing simulations for his PhD at Imperial College. DK helped found ATCA - The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - in 2001, a philanthropic expert initiative to address complex global challenges through Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy.

Authority – DK is an authority on countering complex global threats; strategic risk management & visualisation; contingency planning; Information Operations (IO); electronic defence; biometric authentication; secure payment systems and Open Source hardened kernel solutions. He is an invited contributor to defence and global security analysis in the UK, USA, EU, Canada, Switzerland, Japan and India. mi2g intelligence has been cited by several government agencies including NISCC in the UK, FBI in the US and UN agencies in New York & Geneva.

Why hand held computers + clickable print will fix high school: 91% computer use less than once a week is not going to do it.

With all the blablabla and gezillion dollars allocated to computers in the classroom, consider this snippet from Time magazine.

from Mourning the Death of Handwriting - TIME:
"A study published in the February issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology found that just 9% of American high school students use an in-class computer more than once a week."

Then consider that high school kids at all levels of the pyramid are on their cell phones as much as they can be.

The issue is not how many computers the school district buys. The issue is how often the kids use computers. As smart phones morph into hand held computers the kids, not the school district will buy them. Whoever buys them controls when they are used.

The clickable print part is straightforward. Connect the hand held to the internet and use Print as the at hand table of contents.

Dr Joe Webb gets it right, again. Advertising needs mass media less and less.

The good news is that printernet publishing and clickable print is all about Massive Personalization. That's even better than mass customization.

Printing Industry News, Commentary & Analysis, Research and Consulting from WhatTheyThink: "...The whole point of new media is small ball. Quit playing for the three-run homer and amass the singles and doubles... 'the key thing is economics of scale is going to disappear. That's really what the issue is... instead we're going to go into the economics of re-aggregation... how do you get 10, 20, 30, 40 thousand people instead of taking in 250 million and making them into 12 and 30 million dollar segments. How do you re-aggregate one at a time into the tens of thousands?'

More XRX dna on the loose: Goodwill's new CEO has a familiar face and the opportunity for Vertis

Goodwill's new CEO has a familiar face:
"Tom Andrews, who previously lived in El Paso and was on Goodwill's board during 2002-2007, has left his job as regional manager of technical service for Xerox in Edmond, Okla., to take the El Paso position, Goodwill reported. Andrews worked 32 years for Xerox and covered Oklahoma, Kansas, western Missouri, and northwestern Arkansas in his last job for the company.

The reason I fell in love with Xerox, way back in the day, was the people who worked there. When a job at Xerox meant a life time career their people had the time and security to get better and better. The previous CEO started by selling copiers. The present CEO started as a summer intern. Even today I don't know of another global that has had two women in a row at the top. Plus the diversity of top management is still pretty amazing.

And of course, there is Xerox PARC. That was where the organization's dna combined to invent most of the tools that have driven the evolution of the media world we now live in. Ethernet, the GUI, postcript just to name a few. Then in the early 90's those tools came together in the Docutech and the digital printing revolution went mainstream.

But an organization that thrived in the 20th century is dysfunctional in the 21st. While it is still true, for a while, that in large organizations "nobody ever got fired for buying Xerox" that's coming to an end in the face of global competition. So the teams of people that lived in a protected environment find themselves in a ruthlessly competitive environment.

While Xerox reorganizes itself, those teams either leave or are "excessed" under the pressures of "Wall Street" demanding higher profit numbers, while disregarding the real measures of organic growth. Thankfully that is starting to change. Today's lede at Reuters was

* Q2 EPS 16 cts vs estimate 11 cts* Profit helped by cost-cutting, margin improvement * Q2 Revenue declined 18 percent * Revenue seen pressured in rest of year due to economy* Shares up more than 9 pct

Quincy Allen and Michael Kucharsky at Vertis
The XRX teams that find new homes have their unique dna's and 10,000+ hours of reflective practice. As Gladwell explains in Outliers, that's what you need to be great.

I bet XRX dna will be the kernels of the communication world in the 21st century. But to spread throughout an organization needs a minimum of three. Five is usually too many. Two is just not enough. If there is another one at Vertis, perhaps coming from inside the Vertis organization, my hope is that Vertis is going to scale clickable print help fix high school education and the health delivery system.

They'll probably also do well in marketing. While marketing is interesting-to-them it is not as interesting-to-me. The margins in marketing are just going to get smaller and besides most Americans don't need more stuff. They need more smart and better health.

"What happens when Verizon gets iPhone--as is widely expected in 2010?"

Probably bad news for AT&T. Good news for Verizon. Good news for Google. And very, very good news for clickable print (Print + TinyPurls + QR codes.)

The AT&T v Verizon story is in the snippet. The story for Clickable Print is that hand held computers (smartphones) will scale in the USA under conditions of open competition. The more hand held computers + built in video cameras, the more value created by clickable print.

AT&T CEO: Exclusive iPhone Deal Won't Last Forever - Business Center - PC World: "What happens when Verizon gets iPhone--as is widely expected in 2010?"
. . .
Exclusive handset deals are helping AT&T sign-up more new customers than Verizon, but exclusive probably isn't forever, admits AT&T's CEO. Post-exclusivity, AT&T's future doesn't look nearly as bright as its past. Verizon's lead looks solid.

Verizon said Friday it added 1.1 million customers in the second quarter. That's less than the 1.4 million AT&T reported a day earlier. However, Verizon remains the #1 provider of cellphone service in the U.S., with 87.7 million customers compared to #2 AT&T 79.6 million.

Much of AT&T's growth has come from exclusive deals with handset manufacturers, notably Apple for the iPhone and RIM for the BlackBerry Bold. But, those deals won't last forever, and then what?

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson yesterday told attendees at a Fortune-sponsored conference that iPhone exclusivity probably won't last forever, but refused to elaborate.

A graduate degree in education informatics at PARC University: A thought experiment

Here's the vision from the learning point of view:



http://www.johnseelybrown.com/

Why Clickable Print will work better than textbooks at the bottom of the pyramid

Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project:
"The picture changes when including access on a handheld and with the broader measure of wireless use that includes laptops and other devices. For each measure, use among African Americans matches or exceeds that of white Americans. Two measures of engagement with the wireless online – accessing the internet on a handheld on the typical day or ever – shows that Africans Americans are 70% more likely to do this than white Americans."

Smartphones are hand held computers. iPhone from Apple and myPhone from Google are just the leading examples. For high school kids, at all levels of the pyramid, hand held is the killer app because it allows them to spend their days hanging out and moving around.

New Google smartphone could be a contender

It's due to be on the market on August 5. Lots of cool features, but pretty much the same as the other iPhone copy cats. Here's what caught my eye.

New Google smartphone could be a contender:
"The myTouch sells for $149 with a new contract and T-Mobile customers can not only pre-order the phone, but also buy accessories. In case you haven’t heard, T-Mobile just inked a deal with Radio Shack, so you can also buy the myTouch and other T-Mobile products at various RadioShacks side-by-side with phones from other major carriers."

If Xerox PARC became XP University, they can offer an MS in Education Informatics

WGU college offers a BS degree in Health Informatics.

Health Informatics Degree
|Online Bachelor’s in Health Information Technology
| WGU College of Health Online:
"Our online health informatics degree will give you a tremendous advantage. The B.S. in Health Informatics combines concepts in healthcare, information technology, and leadership practice to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to be a valuable designer, developer, and manager of health information systems. You’ll become a unique asset in the high-demand fields of health informatics and health information management with the added credibility of two recognized IT certifications."

On 22 Aug 2008 this post appeared at a blog with this in the "about."

This site will explore how analysis of data, concepts, and ideas can inform the design and practice of education. Clarence Fisher, Alec Couros, George Siemens

The first post said,

In late 2007, Clarence Fisher presented a need that he felt at a classroom level: the ability to use data and information generated by his students in order to improve the quality of learning. In conversations with Alec Couros and George Siemens he expressed this need. After several discussions of the administrative and instructional value of education informatics, this site was born.

On the same day, this post

What are we talking about when we say “education informatics”??
Perhaps a discussion on what we mean by ‘education informatics’ is an important starting point. As a broad starting point, informatics is the analysis or science of information, exploring and exposing structures, connections, and interactions.

I view education informatics as the analysis of the flow of information and development of concepts and understanding during the process of learning. Informatics provide educators with an understanding of how individual learners develop their knowledge. For example, how does a critical concept develop in networks of learners? Is it due to the teacher/instructor’s facilitation? Is it due to learner-learner interaction? Does “understanding” ripple like a meme through a classroom? How can we evaluate the quality of learning by one individual in contrast to others? Or in contrast to stated course goals?

It usually only needs a team of three to get it done. All they probably need is some global to say let's really help figure this out. I bet that the really get it based on the video I found at Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy, "the personal and professional blogging space of Dr. Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina."

New Zealand has been doing the cool stuff first for a while. Estate agent QR code marketing.

"Cool" is what gets early adopters. The right price gets mass adoption. The monetization part is about metrics. That's why CodeZ QR or copy cats is such a big deal. To the extent that the path to monetization includes print, print becomes more valuable. As print becomes more valuable, margins increase.

In the video, is he holding a cell phone or a hand held computer? Maybe netbooks will be too big.

Estate agent QR code marketing:
"New Zealand based online estate agent www.opentoview.com have added QR codes to their property marketing materials. Print advertising, window cards and flyers will now feature a specific QR code for the property being sold and will direct the user to detailed information on the property as well as offering a virtual tour.

Some of the latest research from the Media Lab. If you've seen Minority Report, you already know where this is going. But watch the whole thing and you'll see where Print fits.