http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2008/01/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about.html There exist problems, intractable to decide, yet easy to check. Fri, 07 May 2010 22:25:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2008/01/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about.html/comment-page-1#comment-87 Kurt Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:37:20 +0000 http://learningcomputation.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about#comment-87 I don't know, I think I would put Rushkoff's entry in the "you actually believed that?!" department. I do think the Internet is having an enormous, and generally positive, impact on the world. As one tiny example, there is < HREF="http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_6.html#kelly" REL="nofollow">Kevin Kelly<>'s entry about Wikipedia.I think some of the effects of the open flow of information enabled by the Internet are subtle and not easy to tie back to their sources. For example, I suspect that the recent flood of books on non-belief by Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris, and others would still be decades away if the Internet had not been around to provide early dissemination of the themes behind these books. I don’t know, I think I would put Rushkoff’s entry in the “you actually believed that?!” department. I do think the Internet is having an enormous, and generally positive, impact on the world. As one tiny example, there is < HREF="http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_6.html#kelly" REL="nofollow">Kevin Kelly<>’s entry about Wikipedia.I think some of the effects of the open flow of information enabled by the Internet are subtle and not easy to tie back to their sources. For example, I suspect that the recent flood of books on non-belief by Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris, and others would still be decades away if the Internet had not been around to provide early dissemination of the themes behind these books.

]]> http://learningcomputation.com/blog/2008/01/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about.html/comment-page-1#comment-88 Anonymous Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:52:17 +0000 http://learningcomputation.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about#comment-88 I found Douglas Rushkoff's entry (on the Internet) pretty interesting also... I found Douglas Rushkoff’s entry (on the Internet) pretty interesting also…

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