Session 8: Technology, Organizations, and Leadership.  Keeping up with Technology.

SESSION 8 TOPICS Reports on class projects and guest presentation. Implications of technology and rapid technological change for leaders Class discussion on strategies for keeping up with technological change--and keeping issues in perspective Review of what has worked for the class and what needs to be changed the next time the course is offered.

Major Class Assignment
Presentations of final reports on the Technology, Organizations, and Leadership Projects.  Information about reports should be posted to the Discussion board by April 4. 

UCLA Professor and Net Pioneer Paves the Way for the Next Big Thing: Getting ready for the era of ubiquitouscomputing.  from the February 18, 2000 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education [http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i24/24a05301.htm]

Cluetrain Manifesto [http://www.cluetrain.com/index.html]

The Postmodernity of Cyberspace, Adrian Mihalache [http://www.spark-online.com/october00/discourse/mihalache.html]

Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy, cofounder Sun Microsystems [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html]**

Lifescapes of the Future:  Living and Learning in the 21st Century by Brigitte Jordan
(on electronic reserve-Blackboard.  Share your thoughts and suggestions for improving this paper with the author gjordan@parc.xerox.com)

Video Presentation by Rifkin on the New Economic System and other work [http://www.leadingauthorities.com/ram/Rifken.ram]**

Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin, By Tamara Straus April 28, 2000 [http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=79] **10-17-2001

Pew Internet and American Live [http://www.pewinternet.org/]**

Where Napster Has Gone, Others Will Follow by Jeremy Rifkin Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2000 [http://www.speaking.com/articles_html/JeremyRifkin_877.html]**

Content and Pedagogy in Teaching About the Social Aspects of Computerization Professor Rob Kling [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/pubs/pedag1.html]**

Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000 by David Silver [http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/ccs.html]**

Technological or Media Determinism by Daniel Chandler [http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet01.html]**

State of the Art Web Sites
Please add your favorites to the Discussion Board.

ABC interactive [http://www.abcnews.go.com/index.html]
Flash technology [http://www.balthaser.com/]
If your browser does not support Flash technology you may need to Download Flash Player
PC Magazine 100 Top Web Sites
[http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2682122,00.html]
Some thoughts on the r/evolution.  Washington Library Association's 2000 conference [http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/wla2000/links.htm] 10-17-2001
To tranlate from one language to another [http://babelfish.altavista.com/]

 

GUEST PRESENTER, on Organizations and Technology
Short hands-on activitiesPlanning your next computer system
The difference between what you want and what you need.  Issues of cost, compatibility, and the newest toys.
Shelly, Cashman, and Vermaat, Discovering Computers 2002 p. 8.42-8.56,
For access to product reviews, ZD Net [http://www.zdnet.com/]
Dell Higher Education home page [http://www.dell.com/us/en/hied/default.htm]

Links to discount computer retailers
[http://netseller.com/]
[http://www.alltronics.com/]
[http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/web/gdirect.html]

Buying meta-site with price guide
[http://shopper.cnet.com/]