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Spaceweaver Weaver

GRID Nova Spivack - 1 views

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      An introduction to web evolution
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      The idea of Global Brain. Kevin Kelly's 'One Machine'
Djiezes Kraaijst

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes - 0 views

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shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Richard Foreman's "pancake people" essay was originally distributed to members of the audience for Foreman's play The Gods Are Pounding My Head. It was reprinted in Edge. I first noted the essay in my 2005 blog post Beyond Google and Evil.
  • Neil Postman's translation of the excerpt from Plato's Phaedrus, which can be found at the start of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
  • Alan Turing's 1936 paper on the universal computer was titled On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
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  • Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason
  • Mumford’s later two-volume study The Myth of the Machine.
  • Lewis Mumford discusses the impact of the mechanical clock in his 1934 Technics and Civilization.
  • I found the story of Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter in J. C. Nyíri's essay Thinking with a Word Processor as well as Friedrich A. Kittler’s winningly idiosyncratic Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and Darren Wershler-Henry’s history of the typewriter, The Iron Whim.
  • Maryanne Wolf’s fascinating Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  • study of the behavior of online researchers is here.
  • Scott Karp’s blog post about how he’s lost his capacity to read books can be found here, and Bruce Friedman’s post can be found here. Both Karp and Friedman believe that what they’ve gained from the Internet outweighs what they’ve lost.
  • The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, “iGod.”
  • Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I’ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I’ve tried to round them up below.
  • "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes
François Dongier

Speech on Building Britain's Digital Future | Number10.gov.uk - 0 views

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shared by François Dongier on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • A transcript of a speech given by the Prime Minister on Building Britain’s Digital Future in London on 22 March 2010.
  • Underpinning the digital transformation that we are likely to see over the coming decade is the creation of the next generation of the web - what is called the semantic web, or the web of linked data. This next generation web is a simple concept, but I believe it has the potential to be just as revolutionary - just as disruptive to existing business and organisational models - as the web was itself, moving us from a web of managing documents and files to a web of managing data and information - and thus opening up the possibility of by-passing current digital bottlenecks and getting direct answers to direct requests for data and information. It will change fundamentally the way we conduct business - with new enterprises by-passing traditional media communications and governmental organisations: new enterprises spun off from the new data, information and knowledge that flows more freely. And in both the content and delivery of public services the next stage of the web will transform the ability of citizens to tailor the services they need to their requirements, to feedback constantly on their success, to interact with the professionals who deliver them and to put the citizen not the public servant in control. Today I can announce the first funding for the next stage of this research - £30m to support the creation of a new institute, the institute of web science - based here in Britain and working with government and British business to realise the social and economic benefits of advances in the web. It will assemble the best of world scientists and researchers and be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web - and the leading web science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt. This will help place the UK at the cutting edge of research on the semantic web and other emerging web and internet technologies, and ensure that government is taking the right funding decisions to position the UK as a world leader. And we will invite universities and private sector web developers and companies to join this collaborative project.
  • also looking at how the new technologies can open the door to a reinvention of the core policy-making processes and towards a renewal of politics itself.
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  • it will enrich our democracy by giving people new ways of communicating complaining and challenging vested interests.
  • we must use this technology to open up data with the aim of providing every citizen in Britain with true ownership and accountability over the services they demand from government.
  • Building on the outstanding work Sir Tim and Nigel Shadbolt who have been leading on ‘making public data public’, I can now announce that we are determined to go further in breaking down the walled garden of government, using technology and information to provide greater transparency on the workings of Whitehall and give everyone more say over the services they receive.
  • Revitalising our politics, our governance and our democracy means going beyond simply increased openness about previously secret information - it requires the policy-making monopoly of ministers and the civil service to be challenged - where practicable - through a step change in the opportunities for people to engage with and interact with government in its policy proposals.
  • open the door to new ways of enabling people to influence and even decide public policy
Wildcat2030 wildcat

PLoS Computational Biology: Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhanc... - 1 views

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  • Scientific innovation depends on finding, integrating, and re-using the products of previous research. Here we explore how recent developments in Web technology, particularly those related to the publication of data and metadata, might assist that process by providing semantic enhancements to journal articles within the mainstream process of scholarly journal publishing. We exemplify this by describing semantic enhancements we have made to a recent biomedical research article taken from PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, providing enrichment to its content and increased access to datasets within it. These semantic enhancements include provision of live DOIs and hyperlinks; semantic markup of textual terms, with links to relevant third-party information resources; interactive figures; a re-orderable reference list;
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