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Technology futurologist Jonathan Margolis at Learning Technologies 2011
In an entertaining and thought-provoking keynote at Learning Technologies 2011, journalist and author, Jonathan Margolis will question how well we can ever predict the future course of technology, and will weigh up who is best placed to assess its direction. Is it the experts who know the field intimately, or the outsiders who can see the bigger picture? Margolis will consider how technology will look in three, five and ten years' time, and questions which voices should we listen to.
Jonathan will compare the visions of the future that we all had in past decades with the reality of how futures work out in the real world. He will look back at some of the hilariously wrong predictions in the past of how we would be living today and also assesses how some uncannily accurate futurologists actually got things (almost) right.
"Where will learning technology be in ten years' time? Perhaps only a fool would say. After all, ten years ago, who could have predicted mobile technologies, readily available broadband access and rampant social media?" points out Margolis. "Even if someone does manage a correct prediction, though, can we ever precisely say what the impact of technology will be? Often new technologies have unintended and usually unpredictable consequences."
Never afraid to stick his neck out, Jonathan will also make some predictions of his own about just where future learning technologies might be heading.
The Learning Technologies 2011 conference takes place on 26-27 January 2011 at London Olympia 2. Learning Technologies conference programme and bookings.
About Jonathan Margolis, Journalist and Author
Jonathan Margolis has established a national and international reputation for writing and speaking in an informed and extremely witty, accessible style and has been reporting in the mainstream press on technology for longer than anyone else in the UK.
He is also a successful author of biographies (John Cleese, Billy Connolly and others) and, more recently, popular science books, including a history of futurology.
About Learning Technologies 2011, 26 and 27 January 2011, Olympia 2, London
The Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference is Europe's leading showcase of the technology used for learning at work and provides a wealth of content from the leading exhibitors in the field and a free seminar programme running in five theatres in the exhibition hall. The conference, running alongside the exhibition has expert sessions on learning technology, strategy and the issues facing L&D from some of the leading learning thinkers and visionaries in the industry.
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About Learning and Skills 2011, 26 and 27 January 2011, Olympia 2, London
Learning and Skills 2011 is co-located with the Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference. The Learning and Skills exhibition showcases the entire spectrum of methods, products and services for workplace learning with a focus on people development, learning and performance, learning resources and HR systems and services and is built around a multi-streamed programme of free seminars in four theatres on the exhibition floor.
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The combination of Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills provides access to more than 200 exhibitors and over 120 free-of-charge seminars and is the must attend event for all learning and development professionals.
