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Allerject epinephrine

Feb 16, 2015

As long as I have been giving talks I have been talking about the idea of learning being embedded in objects (crediting Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction). My favorite story was always the fishing pole that teaches you to fish. Then last year we actually saw the teaching tennis racket. Now they're becoming more and more commonplace. My colleague Rod Savoie points to this item, a "new epinephrine tool, an example of Performance Support? When you want to use it, it tells you what to do so that you don't have to learn it ahead of time." I replied, "That's a great example of performance support. Now imagine the package getting information live from the internet, and knowing your son's medical history, language preferences, vocabulary level…" And Danny D'Amours points to A connected interactive toothbrush.

 

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