Twas the Blog before Christmas
I can’t believe how fast this past year has gone by. It’s almost like we’re in a time warp or something. I suspect technology has something to do with that. Things change so quickly now, it’s really hard to keep up. I wonder what 2013 has in store for us? Will there be new gadgets that blow our minds? Will there be breakthroughs in robotics where more work is performed by machines? How might learning and teaching be changed by technology? I was watching a TV piece on the food channel today about how those chocolate oranges are made, assembled, packaged, and shipped. I had no idea how automated the process is. It’s quite amazing or perhaps alarming, how machines have taken on more work that not too many years ago, required human beings. Now in factories of all sorts, the humans are really serving the machines, not the other way around. I’ve written previously about automation and it’s looming impact on us. Automat...