I recommend you read Walter Wriston's The Twilight of Soverignty very, very important book that did more than any other to shape my thinking of internet economics -- financial and knowledge based http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Sovereignty-Info...
Midori
· 2 years ago
Hey thanks for stopping by. I miss you all!
Esteban Glas
· 2 years ago
Krista: At least we secured a place in the 2008 olympics. Should I remind you who defeated the US on semis back in Athens 2004 :)
David: Will try to get a grab on that book next time I go around to the US. I searched for it online in Argentina with little luck
Pau: We miss you. We miss your mates, we miss your munchies.
mark
· 2 years ago
Esteban,
A little off your path, but maybe thoughts for a tangent posting. Let's consider how technology can change the approach to education, human knowledge, and progress as a species.
For centuries, we, as humans have relied upon the process of writing down what we have discovered, and then trying to teach each new generation what we have learned so far. As we learn more and more, there isn't enough time to learn all, so I see the trending is toward education becoming and index.
Perhaps easiest to use a library as an example. Consider your average library. It would take lifetimes for a person to read and try to remember every book sequentially. But, if we just teach the person the order of the library by subject, author, title, and where things are physically stored, they can then access the information as needed. I see technology as a way to do this. But, our education system is lagging - it is incrementally applying new technology to the same basic approach, rather than re-engineering the whole process.
Consider - it takes 12 grades to try to teach all these concepts, plus a lot of just facts to be memorized, then 4 more years, perhaps 6, or 8 before a person is fully educated, and ready to start work. Let's assume the work were more in terms of research or advancing the knowledge of the species rather than more mundane things, which are still required. If we changed the education process to be more of an index, instead of immersive memorization, then perhaps we could free up 4-8 years of a person's life to spend breaking new ground.
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very, very important book that did more than any other to shape my thinking of internet economics -- financial and knowledge based
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Sovereignty-Info...
David: Will try to get a grab on that book next time I go around to the US. I searched for it online in Argentina with little luck
Pau: We miss you. We miss your mates, we miss your munchies.
A little off your path, but maybe thoughts for a tangent posting. Let's consider how technology can change the approach to education, human knowledge, and progress as a species.
For centuries, we, as humans have relied upon the process of writing down what we have discovered, and then trying to teach each new generation what we have learned so far. As we learn more and more, there isn't enough time to learn all, so I see the trending is toward education becoming and index.
Perhaps easiest to use a library as an example. Consider your average library. It would take lifetimes for a person to read and try to remember every book sequentially. But, if we just teach the person the order of the library by subject, author, title, and where things are physically stored, they can then access the information as needed. I see technology as a way to do this. But, our education system is lagging - it is incrementally applying new technology to the same basic approach, rather than re-engineering the whole process.
Consider - it takes 12 grades to try to teach all these concepts, plus a lot of just facts to be memorized, then 4 more years, perhaps 6, or 8 before a person is fully educated, and ready to start work. Let's assume the work were more in terms of research or advancing the knowledge of the species rather than more mundane things, which are still required. If we changed the education process to be more of an index, instead of immersive memorization, then perhaps we could free up 4-8 years of a person's life to spend breaking new ground.