Waiting for Silicon
I don’t like starting. If I were a movie director, every film I made would begin in medias res, with some dude running down a street.
But there’s no getting around the obligatory inaugural apologia for your blog’s existence. You’ve got to kick the gate open somehow if you want to get on with the race.
So, without further ado, here’s the point of this site:
The education system needs serious innovation.
The global Silicon Valley is great at innovation.
An overwhelming portion of the talent and money in the global Silicon Valley goes toward creating addictive and pointless virtual brainmush crackworlds designed to suck as much cash via kids out of parents’ credit card accounts as possible.
To aim more talent and money at education, the budding edutech sector needs more attention, and more collaboration.
This blog is a first microstep by your correspondent towards accomplishing the task, which will ultimately be achieved by a broad community of people (see blogroll for a sample), of catalyzing the emerging edutech underground into an industry that can not only improve the education system, but redirect the entire social fabric of the connected world in a more powerful and positive direction.
Students around the world are waiting for Supermen, and the geeks in the tech world are an army of Clark Kents. Here’s to hoping they find a phone booth.
