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More Links – David Kleeman’s five minute futurology, Kids ‘n’ iPads research

David Kleeman I think of as the Kofi Annan of international children’s media. He lives and breaths content for kids and travels the world to talk up the good stuff. This is a summary of his future-gazing presentation given at the

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“How Kids Will Help Decide the Future of Television” – very interesting found articles

Thank’s to R&D’s Vicky Spengler for spotting some highly relevant and data-packed articles over the weekend. How Kids Will Help Decide the Future of Television – from http://www.business.time.com This article covers lots of issues and current thinking. One headline is

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“Seismic changes” to broadcasting – Will Gompertz

BBC Radio 4 series Zeitgeisters Heard this on Radio 4 at the weekend. At first I was annoyed that Will Gompertz was stealing our insights. But then realised the changes happening to the world of broadcasting must be pretty clear to anyone

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5 Years from Now by Guest Blogger Cat Macaulay – Programme Director MSc Design Ethnography, University of Dundee

Cat Macaulay responds to the 5 Years Hence Questionnaire. 5 years from now my kids will be 18 and 16, and I expect that the family room will rarely be used as a communal digital entertainment space apart from for

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A conversation with Simon Cobb – Development Producer, CBBC – about the future shape of TV

This was a recent conversation I had with CBBC’s Simon Cobb – reconstructed with the help of copious notes taken at the time. I thought Simon had such interesting thoughts about the possible future shape of TV, I wanted to write

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2018 – The year the dumb TV got Smart

I’m going to imagine it is 5 years from now. I’ve come home from work – not on a hover skateboard, I’m trying keep this realistic – and I switch on the telly… <flurry of harp music, picture dissolves> The

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