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When is Training not Training?

One of my pet peeves when working in the education sector was the attitude often taken to training. It would not be uncommon for someone to spend, what often appeared to be, a relaxed day away and then return declaring themselves to have been ‘trained’ on some important subject that was going to revolutionise learning…

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Technoevolution

Last month while exploring Madrid I visited El Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de España (MUNCYT) [National Museum of Science and Technology]. An exhibition on product development over the last 150 years caught my attention for a couple of reasons. The description read:

All objects we are using, at this very moment, are doomed to obsolescence…

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