SI 110 - 1/9/07
information in motion
potential information
moving information
explosions of knowledge
nework effect
more people who have
robert metcalf
value of information goes up as the square of the number of people on the network
- example
US flag
pledge allegence
"fetish"
racoon and slingshot
animal communication
mushrooms
need a frame of knowledge
if you are the first, you might die
native americans + modern medical
bible
different interpretations
make it seem modern
existed originally in oral form
studying dead folks
how much wealth they have
estate taxes
introduced in early 20th century
preventing aristorcracy
relabeled: death tax
"all men are created equal"
two different meanings depending on era
potential citizens
white men
with property
high definition DVDs
HDDVD
Bluray
will include some people, exclude others
mechanics vs engineers
mechanics invented stuff
engineers abstract what mechanics were doing
vikings
bigger guy
king of the hill
Christians
cut them a deal
tithe
language
god
smallpox vaccine
found vaccine by mistake, but didn't have any theory to explain it
wasn't for another 100? years until other vaccines came around
didn't know about immunity back then or germs
disemination and storage of information
language
media
pipes for diffusion
repositories
- modes of talknig about information
info handling
arranging information
databases
libraries
data-mining
computation
data crunching
rules
creating new knowledge
communication
internet
phones
printed materials
info diffusion
combinations
- info practices
info handling
language
grammar
classification systems
no such thing as a neutral system
reflects the culture that generates it
taxonomy
computation
abaci (abycus)
communication
texts
symbols
gestures
body language
p2p
face to face (f2f)
internet
- history
development of knowledge
Sumerian
writing first started
where US is fighting now
quipu
knoted rope
strokes
sheep
grain
orders of emperor could go across the empire without being modified
mobility of information and knowledge
written forms
advantages
won't change
disadvantages
won't change
literacy - way to keep power
catholic church latin
people have to take the literate person's word for it
printing
music
bible
protestent sermons
religious truth shifted
authority -> p2p
sun at center
Copernicus
published after death
Galileo
put under arest
not about astrology, but about power
experiements
knowledge making system
labs to discover truth
does experiment, writes it down
science as truth
in our current culture
politics
knowledge is basis of being a citizen
genres
novels
polictical broadsides
huge risk for writing one
manifested in pornography
professor
talks to his cat for hours each day
gender differences in knowledge
female
tacit knowldege
converse
male
annonce knowledge
abstraction
sites of knowing
classical libraries
Ephesus
scrolls, no books
library of alexandria
not a lending library
destroyed by Christians
had to know someone to get in
didn't make knowledge widly held
University
same system we use today with masters and doctors
roman contracts
powerful assumptions
two people can agree on something and can be enforced by the state
for first time, power is moving horizontally
random stuff
Marco polo brought pasta to the italians
Intellegent Design
trying to be science
"Porn helps cover front end expenses"
Zattoo?
information in motion
books are not doing anything unless they are being read
shark not in motion will drown
standardized food
corn is getting standardized
loosing local knowledge of what crops work in the area and for the people
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