On the Internet, Dissidents’ Shots Heard ‘Round the World
As more and more people have access to the Internet, it will be practically impossible for governments to ban something.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.
The plan, according to a consensus of experts … is that every home will eventually be wired and … this access will make our lives fuller, richer, easier, more wonderful somehow. Will it? Probably not … We are talking about a machine here; a pretty interesting one, but basically a big machine that spits data across long distances … Ultimately we just connected to one another, and that doesn’t make us any different; it just means we are more in touch.
Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.
Are we headed toward a world filled with anemic drones, laboring away at sterile keyboards, never taking a moment to sniff the ragweed, never twisting an ankle while tossing a Frisbee to their flea-ridden dogs? Well, we might be. America, at least, has been headed there for some time, roughly since the invention of the fluorescent tube. The Internet, though, is just a symptom of our technological cocoonery, not the root cause.
Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.
Is the American democracy, then, on the verge of some critical, evolutionary, Internet-inspired transformation? … Imperfect as it is, there is logic behind the idea of representative democracy, and the only way to really budge Washington would be if we all showed up one morning with our yellow bulldozers.
Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.
Will the Internet revolutionize planetary culture, transform global politics, rearrange the balance of world power? I looked for evidence, but I didn’t find much. Sure, there are changes along the margin, some interesting changes, but as much as they might deserve it, I just don’t see old institutions tumbling down any time soon.
Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?
I propose to abolish all public grants for schools and colleges and instead give the money directly to families in the form of “micro-vouchers” to be spent on anything that nurtures the spirit and teaches new skills.
Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?
A decade ago, Ronald Reagan said in a speech that he was looking forward to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the “Evil Empire.” Most people thought he was talking about 200 to 300 years from now. Today, we know that it took only a few years … When it ended, it ended in one big bang. That’s what I see happening in the arena of education.
Will Technology Alter Traditional Teaching?
The very notion of traditional education will become obsolete. The new technologies that are now being developed will enable people of all ages and social conditions to learn anything, anywhere, at any time. Learning will not be based, as it is today, on mechanisms of selection and exclusion. Diplomas will disappear. Instead, people will get certificates (the same way we get driver’s licenses) to show potential employers that they have specific skills, talents, or knowledge.
The World-Wide Web
Conventions on the Internet for charging and commercial use to allow direct access to for-profit services.
The World-Wide Web
Evolution of objects from being principally human-readable documents to contain more machine-oriented semantic information, allowing more sophisticated processing.