It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
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.
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
When it
comes to advancing goals, objectives, and agendas, groups that are well
organized, and consequently well funded, will eventually triumph over the
unorganized, underrepresented, and underfunded.
these groups network across the social, cultural, and political divide in
shoring up mutual interests (business, corporate, and labor) to advance their
agenda of a world without borders.
Over 13,000 exhibits were displayed and viewed by over 6,200,000 visitors to the
exhibition.
The London Borough of Bromley, who own the park today, together with the
Crystal Palace Foundation, have recently submitted an outline proposal the
National Heritage Lottery Fund to restore much of the park to its former glory.
The Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire on November 30th 1936,
following which the area lost much of its focus and began to decline. But many
of the most important events in the history of the Crystal Palace took place in
the grounds, which retain much of their original overall layout today and are a Grade II listed historic park.
The park also contained unrivaled collections of statues, many of which were
copies of great works from around the world, and a geological display which
included a replica lead mine and the first attempts anywhere in the world to
portray life-size restorations of extinct animals, including dinosaurs.
This "bigger and better" building was divided into a series of courts
depicting the history of art and architecture from ancient Egypt through
the Renaissance, as well as exhibits from industry and the natural world.
The Crystal Palace was originally designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in only 10 days
and was a huge iron goliath with over a million feet of glass.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this
industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain.
An interesting article I found in the paper this morning about what is being done by these institutions to increase the use of technology in post secondary education. All content will be free.
The following Nuclear Age
Timeline was created by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation to preserve memory, and
to awaken and educate new generations about the profound dangers and extreme
risks posed by nuclear weapons.