Pearson Education & Technology – What can we do for you in the future? – Then came the internet...
Pearson Education & Technology – What can we do for you in the future? – Then came the internet...
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Pearson Education & Technology
What can we do for you in the future?
Developer Relations / Beard - Toby Sims / @4thfloor_monkey
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Wait, I thought you just did text books?
What are our Favourite Things?
Education!
Technology!
...
Education Technology
Technology in Education
* and sometimes a lot of business data and analytics
And sometimes a bit of this:
Binoculars out:
Let's have a quick peek at API history and Media Ecology
Was there life before the internet?
What was the original API?
- The printing press?
- The telegraph?
Then came the internet...
and we all got mildly addicted.
- We built everything...
- And it was worth many units of currency
- Until...
The bubble burst.
Which meant we had to innovate a little
The expansion of Media Ecology
*With thanks to the work of Marshall McLuhan et al
Some assumptions:
- Media is infused in every act and action in society
- Media fixes our perceptions and organises our experiences
- Media ties the world together
The expansion of API ecology
*With thanks to the work of many, many blue sky thinkers...
- APIs are infused in every act and action in society
- APIs fix our perceptions and organise our experiences
- APIs tie the world together
GO APIs!
How does the omnipresence of information affect us?
Just think of all the 'media delivery and sorting options'!
Enhances
Obsolescence
stuff
Retrieval
stuff
Reversal
stuff
Clever Quotes
These guys come in two forms, inline: “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from” and block:
“For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.”Take a Moment
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