The upcoming Consumer Electronics Show 2008 will include seminars, demonstrations, and displays featuring next steps in devices and content to address the growing consumer demand for on-demand mobile services. Teachers will find more competition for students' attention at this show than we currently encounter. The biggest players are making themselves visible, so we may understand more about the new reality of mobile, on-demand content that drives their businesses.

“It has never been more clear that exploding demand for high quality content, of all kinds, on all platforms, is a key factor driving the unprecedented growth in consumer electronics today," said Mark Lukasiewicz, Vice President of Digital Media for NBC News and one of National Broadcasting Company Universal Integrated Media's project leaders at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. "Our presence on the CES show floor this year gives us a unique opportunity to show the CE industry the rich content that NBCU has to offer worldwide, and to cover this pivotal industry event for consumer and business audiences on all our platforms.”

Hollywood and the Digital Consumer: How Technology, Content and Services Establish the Next Level of Consumer Entertainment Experience – Part of the Digital Hollywood Partner Program, attendees will learn about the entertainment industry’s next "golden age" of production, and gain insight into how the industry is anticipating and responding to consumer needs in an on-demand, fully integrated world of television, film and gaming.

All Video All the Time: Broadband, IPTV, DVD and Mobile – In this Digital Hollywood session, attendees will hear predictions from industry experts on the future of IP delivery and its impact on the film industry.

Movies, TV and Video for Mobile: Original Entertainment & Information Programming Jump-Starts the Revolution – As consumers worldwide begin tuning into a mobile video universe, attendees will learn about the challenges facing the transformation of the communications world.

Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of the MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child Project, and the MIT Media Lab will deliver the closing keynote address of the program.

While this show targets business buyers and investors, it also offers good news to educators. It gives us a heads-up of electronic media trends that will likely make more content delivery more accessible to more students in less time than we provide through traditional schooling. I find this exciting and hope other teachers do too.

(Quotes taken from an October 4, 2007, press release. I didn't find a link to post for you to read the rest of the release.)

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