How to Teach the Trophy Generation

= Premium Content

May 29, 2012, 10:26:12 AM

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

News: For all you tweeters, follow The Chronicle on Twitter.

Pages: 1 2 [3]

Author

Topic: How to Teach the Trophy Generation (Read 6953 times)

mad_doctor

1337
Distinguished Senior Member

Posts: 2,597

« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2010, 08:41:43 AM »

They're having some success in developing computer processors that use a combination of brain cells and semiconductor:

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,64877.0.html
http://www.itpro.co.uk/625990/human-brain-cells-linked-to-silicon-chip?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ItPro%2FWireless+(IT+PRO+-+Mobile+%26+Telecoms)

Just wait until they start implanting all those social gadgets and i-chips directly into their craniums. If there are any historians left to write the story, they will write that it was the official end of humanity.


	Logged

oldfullprof

Not really retired...
Distinguished Senior Member

Posts: 7,755

Representation is not reproduction!

« Reply #31 on: August 19, 2010, 09:09:40 AM »

Marshall McLuan's Understanding Media got them years ago.


	Logged

Someone please tell me to start entering data, rather than screwing off here.

Pages: 1 2 [3]

Jump to:

Chronicle Forums