When will we ever learn that freedom of speech really means freedom.
Thanks to my Tyler Wall for pointing out this great resource!
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We are about 1200 days into Kelly’s prediction on the next 5000 days of the web. I am quite impressed with Kelly’s insight.
Kelly’s perspective on where we are going to be at the end of the next 3800 days or 10 years:
There’s only one machine, and the web is its OS.
All screens look into the One.
No bits will live outside the web.
To share is to gain.
Let the One read it.
It’s going to be machine readable;
you want to make something that the machine can read.
And the One is us — we are in the One.
M.I.T. is naming a two time college drop out as the director of the world’s top computer science lab. Why?
“The choice is radical, but brilliant,” said Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a University of California laboratory that pursues a similar research agenda to the Media Laboratory. “He can position the lab at the edge of change and propel it for a decade.”
Looks like being on the edge of change is a priority for M.I.T.
A MacArthur Foundation funded longitudinal study focused on Internet use of high school students’ reveals that:
* For many youth, their interest in the Internet translates into engagement with civic and political issues.
* Contrary to popular belief, it is rare for individuals on the Internet to only be exposed to political perspectives with which they agree, but many youth are not exposed to political perspectives at all.
* Teaching new media literacies such as credibility assessment is essential for 21st century citizenship.
Yet another resource pointing to the fact that the time, effort and resources spent on filtering or censoring internet access in schools would be better spent on teaching youth how to effectively assess the information they come across.
