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al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif

What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?: Scientific American - 1 views

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future knowledge internet

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  • His story "The Machine That Would Predict the Future" explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.
  • The basic idea is that the properties of knowledge that we've taken for granted at least in the West for, oh, 2,500 years are not actually properties of knowledge. They're properties of knowledge when its medium is paper.
  • al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif on 26 Dec 11
     
    "In the December issue of Scientific American, author David Weinberger reports from the frontiers of knowledge. His story "The Machine That Would Predict the Future" explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world. "
al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif

Asia Times Online :: Back to the future - 0 views

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economics economy

shared by al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif on 25 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif on 25 Dec 11
     
    Back to the Future, from economy 1.0 to 3.0
nbenni

Digital Dark Matter « Virulent Word of Mouse - 1 views

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dark matter economics

shared by nbenni on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • nbenni on 03 Jan 12
     
    households spend more than half of 1 percent of their time online at Wikipedia. The site produces nothing pecuniary owing to its ban on advertising. Yet, it is clearly preferred by many readers, at least judging by the declines in both MSN's Encarta and traditional encyclopedias. Because household revenue for access comes in at more than $35 billion, a reasonable first guess puts Wikipedia's value at more than $175 million in unmeasured revenue a year in US GDP.
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