Episode 4 – Billionaire College, Robot Professors, The future of history, The ephemeral nature of digital things, The Battle of Hastings, and An Endless Dessert Buffet of Online Learning

Here, in episode 4 of Future Show, Jonathan talks with his super-interesting wife, Melissa Carmon (@melissacarmon), about Billionaire College, Robot Professors, The future of history, The ephemeral nature of digital things, The Battle of Hastings, and An Endless Dessert Buffet of Online Learning.  It’s a good one.

 

Here are some notes and things:

 

There’s Nothing Like A Human – Jonathan Andrew Myers (thank you very much)

 

Birdhouse In Your Soul – They Might Be Giants

 

Istanbul – They Might Be Giants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg

 

Istanbul – The Four Lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

 

Rdio is gone.

http://www.rdio.com/farewell/

 

Launch Media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAUNCH_Media

 

The Battle of Hastings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLy1LskT6Y8

 

The Amazon Rainforest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

 

World Cat
https://www.worldcat.org/

 

http://Archive.org

 

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

Coursera

http://Coursera.com

 

Pat Pattison
http://www.patpattison.com

 

And for the record, MOOC = Massive Open Online Courses.

 

 

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