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Kristi Koerner

Virtual Economy Research Network | News, research and discussion on virtual goods, curr... - 1 views

virtual-economy.org

economy Digitial

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  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10
     
    A site that helped explain virtual economies and how this is playing a role in our emerging global economy.
Gideon Burton

The Gift Economy and Commodity Culture - 1 views

henryjenkins.org/...oesnt_spread_its_dead_p_2.html

henry jenkins gift economy moral economy reciprocity virtual community

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  • Gideon Burton on 25 Sep 10
     
    Henry Jenkins is among the most important theorists on digital culture today, and this post (within a larger series) covers the emerging gift economy (that contrasts with the commodity economy). 
Kristi Koerner

New Religious Movements - 0 views

www.spiritual-wholeness.org/...nrmsgen.htm

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  • Kristi Koerner on 20 Oct 10
     
    Helpful source discussing why new religions can emerge
Gideon Burton

What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? - 2 views

news.slashdot.org/...an-Universities-Like-Wikipedia

slashdot university academic evolution

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  • Gideon Burton on 20 Oct 10
     
    a new form of academic organization is emerging...
  • alexandergunnarson on 20 Oct 10
     
    I think Wikipedia-esque universities would be much more efficient. Kind of in the way free market economies tend to maximize economic output, "free market" universities would tend to maximize educational output. Are there any universities which currently implement this?
Gideon Burton

RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

tools.ietf.org/rfc1866

berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC

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      Gideon Burton on 30 Aug 12
       
      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified. HTML had been around since 1990. Berners-Lee formalized the standard and the process of revising it further through this informal request for comments.
Shuan Pai

Capitalism - 1 views

www.econlib.org/...Capitalism.html

capitalism the concise encyclopedia of economis

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  • Shuan Pai on 28 Sep 10
     
    Gives a good, detailed yet brief description of the history and emergence of capitalism.
Katherine Chipman

George Boole (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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boole

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  • George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He revolutionized logic by applying methods from the then-emerging field of symbolic algebra to logic. Where traditional (Aristotelian) logic relied on cataloging the valid syllogisms of various simple forms, Boole's method provided general algorithms in an algebraic language which applied to an infinite variety of arguments of arbitrary complexity.
  • Starting at the age of 16 it was necessary for Boole to find gainful employment, since his father was no longer capable of providing for the family. After 3 years working as a teacher in private schools, Boole decided, at the age of 19, to open his own small school in Lincoln. He would be a schoolmaster for the next 15 years, until 1849 when he became a professor at the newly opened Queen's University in Cork, Ireland. With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    More about George Boole.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    This is fascinating that he began his career as a school teacher.
Gideon Burton

Coase's Penguin: Or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm - 0 views

www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html

economics Yochai Benkler Ronald Coase peer-production commons labor open seminal

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  • I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Oct 10
     
    A seminal article from Yochai Benkler about changes to economic theory in the digital age.
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

www.wisconsinhistory.org/...fear.asp

atomic

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
Katherine Chipman

Three Mile Island - 0 views

www.threemileisland.org

atomic

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  • Katherine Chipman on 10 Nov 10
     
    Website with documents about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant emergency that happened in 1979.
Katherine Chipman

Alsos:The Atomic Age: Historical Overview - 0 views

alsos.wlu.edu/history.aspx

atomic

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  • scientists unraveled the structure of the atom, revealing the electron and proton. 
  • in 1938 fission of uranium atoms by neutrons was carried out in Germany. The energy associated with fission opened the possibility for powerful weapons and also the production of energy for civilian use.
  • The United Nations attempted to develop a policy for control of nuclear weapons, but the United States and the Soviet Union could not agree. This was but one component of the emerging Cold War between the two nations. Citizens of all nations saw the power of nuclear fission as massive threat as well as a source of useful energy for mankind.
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  • In 1963 the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty became the first agreement to control nuclear weapons.
  • The accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States (1979) and Chernobyl, in the Ukraine (1986) had adverse effects on the use of nuclear reactors for producing power
Ariel Szuch

Future Shock Re-assessed by Richard Slaughter - 2 views

www.metafuture.org/...futureshock.htm

future shock

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  • both individuals and societies needed to learn how to adapt to and manage the sources of over-rapid change.
  • Possibly the best section in the book is that on education. Here he advanced a powerful critique: ‘what passes for education today, even in our ‘best’ schools and colleges, is a hopeless anachronism.’ He then added: for all this rhetoric about the future, our schools face backwards towards a dying system, rather than forwards to an emerging new society. Their vastenergies are applied to cranking out Industrial Men - people tooled for survival in a system that will be dead before they are. (2) The thesis was then advanced that the prime objective of education should be to ‘increase the individual’s ‘cope-ability’ - the speed and economy with which he can adapt to continual change.’ (3) Central to this was ‘the habit of anticipation’. Assumptions, projections, images of futures would need to become part and parcel of every individual’s school experience.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Third World first - The Boston Globe - 1 views

www.boston.com/...third_world_first

digital leapfrog third world economy cellphones

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  • The technology used to bring slum-dwellers like Das their first bank accounts is so advanced that it isn't available to even the most tech-savvy Americans
  • But today, some emerging economies are starting to leapfrog ahead. Why build a network of telephone wires out to remote areas when you can go straight to a cutting-edge mobile network at a fraction of the cost? Why burn fossil fuels for electricity and cooking if cleaner - and in some cases cheaper - alternatives, like solar and biogas, are available? Why electrify rural villages with incandescent bulbs if longer-lasting, environmentally friendly options like LEDs or new fluorescent bulbs exist? In many cases, it is mature markets like the United States and Europe, tethered to older systems, that find themselves playing catch-up.
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