The Mixed Realty Commute: Education for the Telepresence Gig Economy
First there were remote-operation robots for nuclear waste clean up, then remote-operation drone warfare. Now we’ve moved on to the rather more mundane task of remote-operation fast food delivery. I was motivated to finally sit down and start to write the back-story to defense department simulations and workforce-aligned project based learning after seeing a tweet about Kiwibots.
It’s a complex story, so this will be the first of a multi-part series.
Here I will touch on robotics, mixed reality, and Blockchain within the context of a globalized service-sector workforce. I then plan to discuss:
1) How Executive Order 13111, signed by Bill Clinton in 1999, set up a national training advisory committee whose members linked the work-based education model described in Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary Letter” to technology and debt finance.
2) The military origins of competency based education and “intelligent” digital tutoring systems.
3) How the entertainment industry teamed up with the Defense Department in the mid 1990s to develop mixed reality training environments using games and simulations, which resulted in the creation of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies.
4) How global philanthropies and video game developers plan to using CONTINUE READING: Mixed Realty Commute: Education for the Telepresence Gig Economy – Wrench in the Gears
