Y2K? 20 Years Ago! And, 10,000 Gadgets for Learning?
December 31, 2019 TO: Learning TRENDS Colleagues
FROM: Elliott Masie, The MASIE Center
DATE: December 31, 2019.
RE: Y2K? Just 20 Years Ago! What Did We Learn?
In a few hours it will be midnight on New Year’s Eve 2020! But, 20 years ago, what were you doing at midnight for Y2K?
Billions of dollars and millions of hours of prep went into a worldwide focus and anxiety about the dangers of “old” computer code failing when the year changed from 1999 to 2000!
I spent that evening at the MASIE Center LAB - monitoring reports from our Learning CONSORTIUM member companies around the world - hoping that elevators would still run, email would continue to work, and airplanes would not crash.
It is intriguing to remember the Y2K experiences we all had. Send me a note to emasie@masie.com with a few of your memories from the Y2K ramp up and relief when we were relieved after midnight.
I wonder if we will ever have that degree of world and corporate focus on an impending danger. Personally, I wonder if we will ever see a global focus on Y2CLIMATE?
Elliott Updates from CES Gadget and Consumer Electronics Show:
I will be heading to Las Vegas next week to cover the Consumer Electronics Show for Learning TRENDS and our CONSORTIUM. There are almost 10,000 new technologies announced and exhibited and over 175,000 attendees.
We will be exploring the increasing role that Consumer Electronics and Emerging Tech (AI, Machine Learning, Automation, and Sensing) will have on the learning field. I will report on announcements about 5G, Facial Recognition, Smart Tech, and More - all from the Learning perspective.
Every day we will send updates to the Learning TRENDS readers. I would love to hear about some of your big questions about changing technology. Just send me an email to emasie@masie.com
Elliott Masie
The MASIE Center & Learning CONSORTIUM
emasie@masie.com