January 12, 2005
The Best of the Next 25 Years (Ars t+25 Predictions Timeline)
For Ars Electronica last year, I produced a predictions timeline, where anyone could enter a prediction online, year by year, for the next 25 years, and where anyone could vote on them. When we officially froze the website at the end of the Festival, 500 predictions were entered with almost 18,000 votes.
Though many of the predictions were interesting, the voting idea didn't work (go figure). The IMD First Year students last term in CTIN 511 came to the rescue and ranked all 500 individually, with a 0 (not interesting), a 1 (OK / maybe / not sure), or a 2 (very interesting / clever / funny / insightful). We ended up with 10 sets of the 500 numbers.
The Ars folks just compiled 2 Top 50 lists at my request, based on compiling these numbers:
weighting 0-->0, 1-->1, and 2-->3
weighting 0-->0, 1-->1, and 2-->5
Please check them out. We'd be grateful for your feedback. Ars will then post this list publicly on their website.
Great job, First Year Students!
Posted by naimark at January 12, 2005 02:46 PM | TrackBackComments
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