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About fredtruyen

Responsible for Digital Media at the Institute for Cultural Studies KULeuven. Teaches Information Science and Online Publishing.

Digital meets Culture

Posted on 04/05/2012 by fredtruyen

Digital meets Culture is a portal and blog dedicated to the relationship between technology, art and culture. Maintained by Promoter, an innovation company with an impressive pedigree in – amongst others – cultural digitization projects and a large network with people in cultural … Continue reading →

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Sputnik and our dreams of the future …

Posted on 28/04/2012 by fredtruyen

In a very colourfull contribution, “paleofuturist” Matt Novak discusses in his blog how early futuristic cartoons in the late fifties, shortly after the Sputnik launch, envisioned the future. Pairing stunningly accrate visions of future education implying what we now call … Continue reading →

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How do we see the future of online information?

Posted on 20/11/2011 by fredtruyen

Last Thursday we had an interesting discussion in our course on Online Publishing on how students anticipated the near future in online information. We took some inspriation from Vannevar Bush’s visionary 1945 text “As We May Think“, but also from … Continue reading →

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The Future of Screen Technology

Posted on 17/10/2011 by fredtruyen

Still one of the better Youtube videos: TAT’s Future of Screen Technology.

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How will the sky look like in a decade?

Posted on 17/10/2011 by fredtruyen

Past the jet age I can imagine the sky full of slow flying UAV’s, going from very large high-endurance HALE’s to tiny MAV’s and swarming ornithopters, providing communications relay, surveillance, border patrol, … We could have a small, birdlike companion … Continue reading →

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