Inside Google's Laboratory

Here's a New York Times piece on Google X, a lab at which Google attempts to make its long-range plans involving robots, space elevators, and much more.

FOR, Apr. 11: Future Media Outlook

This week's Featured Online Resource is a valuable multimedia presentation called Future Media Outlook. With video clips from Georgia Tech professors and many external links, as well as text, this document orients the user to the mediascape of the future. Concepts covered are

• data tsunami
• true personalization
• content integrity
• multimedia assumed
• mixed reality
• collaboration

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.