An observation comes to mind: FB Provides the social reality of small villages about up to 50 years ago - everybody knows everything about everybody in your social circle. This fosters gossip but definitely not reputation, actually it amplifies both positive and negative social imaging. People got out of villages because anonymity does have advantages.
Seriously, I have seen so many cases where people think they can do interior design themselves, and get it all wrong. I am not talking about decorating your bathroom. I am talking about functional, human friendly spaces where people need to spend working time.
Google xirrus wifi monitor. Is a free wifi signal monitor.
Oh, and did I tell you that you should have peanuts handy? They help you getting a hicthhike on a passing by spaceship.
I love this nerdy culture in
Somebody remembers that Gibson novel where exactly these things were made of nano components, and therefore so light that they could fly (suspend would be the more accurate word)?
OK, I 'll give them ten years to get there
Reading the comments so far, I can only agree with a book being the winner. It has the additional advantage that it will probably be a museum piece by the time she gets to open it -- wait, I forgot that at least another 1000 guys will be doing the same after this slashdot post
If it had to be digital because of video, I would bet for a USB stick. In fact, I would even bet that by 2025 we will be using USB 10.0 or something ridiculous like that. There are few technologies that have a long life, but those which make it to that status do tend to last very long. Examples: ethernet, cd-roms, HFS harddisks. I count USB in that camp because of its versatility.
What problem are you actually trying to solve?
As happens quite often in IT, you are asking for a solution without knowing the requirements, e.g. what do teachers and kids need as IT support?
My kids go to a high-school where assignments, projects and virtually all school work is done on computers. Children send in their assignments per email, corrections are returned as replies. They produce documents, tables, videos (most of them land in YouTube), music files and presentations.
So how does the IT infrastructure looks like? There are computer zones, mostly in open spaces (Caffe-like) with a mixture of desktop batteries (on round tables) and table/seat space to work with laptops (wide WiFi coverage).
As you can imagine, this kind of school assumes that kids do have a computer at home. And, with time most of those computers will have been converted to laptops.
So, rather than adapting school practice to a given IT solution, the school has adapted IT to its needs.
One of the things that sucked me into programming was realizing that I could play with concepts. I got my eyes opened when I first learnt about finite state machines. This simple concept is so beautiful and yet so powerful. That was 25 years ago, but it sure hasn't chaged a bit.
I would take hands off from games -- it takes too much, too long until you have something that makes you proud. You want to make sure the road to satisfaction is right: short at the beginning, building up later.
The BBC was quick to report 200 inch lucky images.
[Images] acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
... are twice as sharp as those from Hubble Space Telescope.
They are also beautiful.
He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.
