Editor’s Note: this blog is posted in anticipation of an immersive, highly participative eSeminar on December 4th, Sess 4) Digital Learning: Individual Adaptive Construction or Connected Social Interaction? In the digital era, are we more adapted to Plato or to Aristotle? Plato learned and taught through written simulated dialogues, a type of reasoning based on logic […]
Author: Ray Gallon
Ray Gallon is owner of Culturecom, a consultancy specializing in technical information design, content strategy, and usability. He has over 20 years’ experience in the technical content industry, having worked with major companies such as IBM, Alcatel, and General Electric Health Care. Previously, Ray was an award-winning radio producer and journalist and has worked with broadcasters such as CBC (Canada), NPR (United States), France Culture, Radio Netherlands International, Deutsche Welle, WDR (Cologne, Germany). In the late 80s, Ray was program manager of WNYC-FM, New York Public Radio.
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[Guest Post] “Human Bionics: More Freedom or Electronic Slavery?”, by Ray Gallon and Neus Lorenzo
Why on earth would anyone want a bionic implant? Does the idea raise visions of Cyborgs and Androids? – Science fiction! But wait – do heart valves count? What about implanted ocular lenses after cataract surgery? Artificial hips, cardiac pacemakers, dental implants? If you think about it for a moment, we are already quite a […]
[Guest Post] “Digital Reality – Escape to a Virtual World or Explore an Augmented Culture?”, by Ray Gallon and Neus Lorenzo
Guest blog post by Neus Lorenzo and Ray Gallon A simple call to action … Rate from one to ten: How real are Angry Birds? Is Second Life a place? Is LinkedIn your new counselor? Fill out our survey and register for our September 24, 2014 webinar on Digital Reality. How “real” is digital reality? […]
[Guest Post] “Internet of Things: Expensive Luxury for the Rich or More Sustainable Equity for All?”, by Ray Gallon and Neus Lorenzo
Introduction: In this first of four blogs, Ray Gallon and Neus Lorenzo of the Transformation Society previews issues to be covered in an upcoming July 10 webinar, “Internet of Things: Luxury for the Rich or Sustainable Equity for All?” You may register for this event here: Sess 1) Internet of Things: Luxury for the Rich […]
[Guest Post] “The Connected Body”, by Ray Gallon
Science fiction writer Frederick Pohl wrote a memoir called The Way the Future Was. This is a wonderful cognitive dissonance that speaks poetically about visions of the future that we had in the past. Today’s future visions are collapsing rapidly into visions of the present, and may even become very quickly obsolete, given the mind-blowing […]
[Guest Post] “Content Strategy: A Wicked Problem”, by Ray Gallon
Wicked Problem: a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. From the Wikipedia Article If this feels like familiar territory to you – and it certainly does to me – you’ll have no problem recognizing that we content workers need strategies […]