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Gideon Burton

The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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internet history anthology

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  • it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
  • What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
  • Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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  • We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
  • what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
Gideon Burton

Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - 0 views

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computer ai turing anthology

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  • Gideon Burton on 21 Aug 12
     
    Seminal article by early computing pioneer Alan Turing on the nature of computing and machine intelligence.
Gideon Burton

My So-Called Second Life: Are You Your Avatar? | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific Ame... - 1 views

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avatar virtual world virtual reality anthology

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  • Gideon Burton on 06 Sep 12
     
    An account of a science writer broadcasting a podcast from Second Life. Includes brief and helpful background on the history of avatars and their social function and best practices. A good intro to avatars.
Gideon Burton

Crowdsourcing Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture in Audio format - 0 views

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crowdsourcing audio lessig anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 19 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 19 Jul 12
     
    An archive of the crowdsourcing effort to record Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture. Nice demonstration of the process and the success of open content. This post was the inspiration for the creation of Librivox.org (see http://librivox.org/about)
Gideon Burton

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - 0 views

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anthology digital culture long tail the long tail chris anderson

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 13
     
    Seminal article by Chris Anderson introducing the concept of the long tail
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