Monday, September 13, 2004

A character in Carl Hiaasen's new novel, Skinny Dip, refers to Alzheimer's as old-timer's disease. This got me thinking about short-timer's disease, the phenomenon of people taking stupid shortcuts because they don't expect to be around long enough to suffer the consequences.
In Adu Dhabi, Mario Garcia, ceo of Garcia Media, described a machine in the Frankfurt Airport where, for €3, you can print out the daily newspaper of your choice. He also countered the charge that kids don't read by pointing out that 14-year olds are reading 700-page Harry Potter books.
John Hedberg talks of getting from passive learning to engaging learning by fostering initiative, self-motivation, experimentation, spontaneous collaboration, and peer coaching. Transer...translate...transcend.

Intel's Martin Curley has some great, alliterative metaphors: from Digital Divide to Digital Dividends. From Bland to Blend.
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