Libraries Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information Economy
Changes in the technology of libraries and publishing may create alternatives to the power of publisher – and soon.
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Libraries Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information Economy
If someday in the future anybody can get an electronic copy of any book from a library free of charge, why should anyone ever set foot in a bookstore again?
Libraries Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information Economy
Books once hoarded in subterranean stacks will be scanned into computers and made available to anyone, anywhere, almost instantly, over high-speed networks … Instead of fortresses of knowledge, there will be an ocean of information. Realizing this vision will transform libraries from guardians of tradition to catalysts of a vast change.
Publishing Models for Internet Commerce
Trademark may turn out to be a far more important form of intellectual-property protection for the Net than copyright. An intellectual property-based brand or trademark is a kind of “standing wave” through which a changing body of content flows. A news magazine doesn’t own the news it reports; it owns its name and the point of view associated with that name.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Abolishing credentialism by implementing hyperlearning in the workplace, commercializing learning through a new growth industry, and demanding real choice in learning environments are all processes that can take place in the free market – independent of the government.
Publishing Models for Internet Commerce
To a cable company, the Net looks like thousands of channels for a couch potato to surf through. (And certainly early returns from the Web indicate that there is a market for this kind of passive infotainment, though I have my doubts about how long that stage will last.) … To a small publisher, the Net looks like an unparalleled opportunity to find and fill real user needs, to talk directly with customers and to create information products that serve them.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Microvouchers can allow individual families or students to choose specific learning products and services not just once a year or once a semester, but by the week, day, or hour. Unlike vouchers for school or college tuition, microvouchers will create a true, wide-open, location-free, competitive market for learning which has the elasticity to efficiently and quickly match supply and demand.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
The key to breaking down the existing academic empire is to eliminate credentialism … Making competency-based employment a universal business practice would provoke the rapid growth of commercial HL [hyperlearning]. The ferment of competition would quickly drive costs down while expanding the range and quality of applications.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
While the HL [hyper learning] revolution is inevitable and the HL industry is already developing today, its advance will be hampered and distorted by the massive waste of resources tied up in the academic empire … A business-as-usual policy will only continue to isolate the poor, minorities, and disadvantaged from the HL revolution, further aggravating the economic polarization of our society.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Knowledge-age technology makes the value of physical goods, as well as services, depend increasingly on their knowledge content. The creation of knowledge through learning and the embodiment of knowledge in software now hold the keys to wealth.