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the web is a realization of Wells's World Brain
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just because everything's archived doesn't mean that we're forced to consume it
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the World Brain, like our own comparatively fragile version, can be subject to neuroplasticity.
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The product's point is awesomeness-without-archive. But it's also ephemerality-as-service. It allows us to do what our minds are, actually, optimized to do: to experience, to forget, to remember, and then forget again.
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The idea that the Internet is about to do to college what it's done to journalism and entertainment seems to be coming dangerously close to conventional wisdom in certain elite circles.
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New innovations don't disrupt old industries
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THERE'S NO BETTER EDUCATION MODEL
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nobody has figured out how to build a cheap, high-quality online university.
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Online colleges have had an easier time picking off students from commuter schools because undergraduates at the top of the market have been raised to expect a college "experience," not just an education.
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It's a broad term referring to either English with a healthy dash of unique Indian vocabulary, or the Indian languages spoken with English words and phrases thrown in, or the speech of Indians comfortable switching back and forth quickly between two languages.
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Singlish (from Singapore) is more like a real creole, an established dialect of English that is difficult for non-Singaporeans to follow.
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we already know British and American English are seeding each other with new words and phrases
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improvised, speech-like forms of written English are proliferating on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere.
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Non-natives are already interacting with each other in person, in English, all around the world. It's harder to forecast the structural changes that this could cause to standard English.
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Dandanes lahko s spletnimi aplikacijami postorimo marsikaj kar iz udobja dnevne sobe, tudi sredi noči: kupimo vstopnice za gledališko predstavo, plačamo položnice, rezerviramo in plačamo letalsko vozovnico ter se prijavimo na let, kupimo knjigo in fotoaparat za na smučanje, celo mleko.
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Vsemu temu rečemo e-poslovanje ali elektronsko poslovanje. To je še pomembnejše za podjetja, saj jim je odprlo nove prodajne poti, prihranilo čas in denar v medsebojni komunikaciji in poslovanju
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Kot so nam povedali v Deželni banki Slovenije, zametki elektronskega bančništva v svetu segajo v 80. leta, pravi razcvet pa je doživelo v sredini 90. let prejšnjega stoletja.
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