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Michio Kaku was the opening keynote speaker at ISTE 2016 . Kaku, author of " The Future of the Mind " is currently the professor of Theoretical Physics at City College of New York and a popularizer of science.    He noted that he was listed among the smartest people in New York, but also noted Madonna made the list! Physicists developed the laser, the World Wide Web, radio, the microwave, the X-Ray, and the space program and GPS! They kind of have a leg up on what the future might look like! One physicist predicted that the Internet would become a place of high culture!  Kaku's talk was on a "world tour" of current thought on the future. He has interviewed 300 of the world's top scientists for his BBC program asking their thoughts on the future.  Is there intelligent life on earth? NO! Just look at the presidential election! His book on the future of the mind, h e asks the question, " Why do we have income inequality?" First we nee...

On Thursday, November 17, Geek Squad Founder, and Best Buy Chief Technology Officer, Robert Stephens spoke to students and staff at South View Middle School. He was extremely engaging and listened to the students in our Smart Bar student support program as much as they listened to him. Here are some of the highlights of what he shared.

Osseo, Minnesota Technology Director Tim Wilson spoke at TIES to a packed house on emerging technologies. He began by reminding us about exponential growth. It grows slowly at first, but then takes off. Sometimes we don't understand what's happening until it's too late! In 1965 Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, said that "the number of circuits on a computer chip will double every two years." In 10 years, we've gone from the pentium chip to the Atom chip, which is the size of a grain of rice! In 1998 there were 8 million transistors on a chip. Now there are 820 million! If we are teaching math standards, understanding Exponential growth should be one of them! So what do the next 10 years hold? If Moore's law holds true, the chips of 2018 will have 25,600 million transistors!!! If this is true, all of the ways that technology has changed in the last 10 years will be infinitesmal compared to what's happening. The computing power of the iMac of 1998 ...