Why we get the future of tech wrong

November 10, 2011 at 12:02 AM

John Naughton's Association for Learning Technology keynote, "The elusive technological future," is a no-holds-barred, kick-ass talk about the systems, blindspots and biases that keep us from understanding where tech has been and where it's going. John's the Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, and he's the author of the excellent From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, What You Really Need to Know About the Internet. via Boing Boing

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