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It is always wise to look ahead
As my first MIDEA post what subject would I choose other than the Horizon Project? I have a number of quotes about predicting the future. My favorite used to be:
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future”
Pithy, and because its such a good quote its attributed to a wide variety of people from Niels Bohr to Yogi Berra. It offers a great escape clause for the quoter in that what they are about to say might be valueless. I don’t think what I’m about to say is valueless, so I’ll go for something that more accurately defines crystal-ball gazing, courtesy of Winston Churchill:
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see”
And so it is with the Horizon Report, a wise look at technologies for the educational and museum spaces that Holly and others have blogged about and probably familiar to you if you are reading this post – in the unlikely event that you are not familiar, follow this link. Hopefully you have read the 2011 reports and consumed the previous ones, but what you may not have done is look back to the future and the wealth of content that the Horizon program represents...
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