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torifile
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2011-05-03, 22:20

So I download that new Al Gore book "Our Choice" mostly to see the app itself. It's amazing. I'm sitting there thinking about what school will be like for my kids, with these new "textbooks" and how much more immersive education can be.

I mean, imagine something as dry as the description of the back and forth of WWII and how that could be graphically depicted.

Or the way layers of information can be hidden within an infographic in the book - a basic bar chart with various green house gases and a layer deeper, the relative contributions by various sources. That's 6 charts in 1 right there (1 for the overview of the gases and then 5 for each of the specific gases' breakdowns).

If Apple hits a trillion dollar market cap and doesn't give an iPad to every school aged child, free, no strings attached, I'm selling all my Apple stock. There, I said it. (They'd better do it because if they hit a trillion dollars, I'm not going to want to sell!)

If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong.
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