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al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif

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

  • 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.
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    "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

CBC.ca | Ideas | The Vancouver Human Rights Lecture - Cute Cats and The Arab Spring - 0 views

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    Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, looks at the "cute cat" theory of internet activism, and how it helps explain the Arab Spring
al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif

Shareable: The Evolution Will Be Socialized - 0 views

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    It's time for us to gather and see what is still possible on the net, and what, if anything, can be built to replace it.
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