SI 110 - 1/11/07
transparency
physical things have knowledge embeded in them?
what does the genome look like?
PSP
black box
can't penetrate it
voting machines
software
DVD player
knowledge became open source
1700s
share knowledge
publishing
politics
what holds governments accountable
classification
physics
metaphysics
reflect the culture they come out of
kinds of knowledge
propositional
what is
procederal
how to
examples
glassblowing
techniques were trade secrets
excluding public from procedural knowledge
franklin institute
can't join if you own a patent
make all knowledge open
- cow campus
new knowledge
MSU
agriculture knowledge
pulp fiction
pulp-paper
yellow journalism
trashy newspapers
dewey decimal system
biased classification system
christian religion
- knowledge infrastructure
USPS
education
required attendance
k-12 (difuse)
higher (expand)
public library
same as p2p music?
selling less books
cheaper paper
less social
librarians
keepers of knowledge
- stereotypes
quiet
mean or stern
single/unmarried/unmarriageable
stuffy
in glasses
progression of stereotypes
public servants
value judgements
hustler and playboy or scientific american
women in 1950
women college
good undergraduate education
teaching, nurse, librarians
social capital
creating a common core of knowledge
foundation of citizenship
know when politians lie
- places
public parks
street corners
relocating retail away from small towns into malls
libraries
Carnegie
community provides
books
staff
book mobile
story hour
- information overload
began in 1900
signal to noise ratio
google, lots of hits
corporations
org charts
knowledge restricted on bottom
prussian army
US railroads
standard time zones
data doubles
leaving data behind us wherever we go
not a problem until people put it back together
data mining industry
secretary
private secretary
keeps track of information
requirements of records
corporations
public accountability
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