Set the Data Free

On April 23 at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Tim O’Reilly had the audacity to read a poem by Rainier Maria Rilke, The Man Watching, imploring the entrpreneurs, technologists, investors, and marketing professionals in the audience to use these new technologies to address the really big problems that we face today. If you win or if you lose, MAKE A DIFFERENCE. There are big ideas and powerful tools being shown here that could transform our learning process. We need big ideas and innovation to help all the students in our schools today achieve their potential.