Outreach and Exponentials in a Flat World: Extreme Collaboration
Thomas J. Greene
Tue Jan 17, 03-04:00pm, 32-144
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event
INSTANT COMMUNICATION: Ideas leap across traditional barriers of distance and language and across the time barrier almost instantly as bits of information technology riding on the web-internet.
ACCELERATED CHANGE: Information moves now not by print media but rather by the explosion of ezines, blogs, virtual communities. Networked people immediately send information across the globe, creating a technology accelerator, resulting in a basic change in the rules for the way people work and learn, which leads to transitions in economic, demographic and ecological domains.
We will examine concrete examples of exponential growth and the demographic and technological changes that brought us to this new world. The new rules of ‘outreach and collaboration’ are replacing 'closed source and competition'.
Contact: Thomas J. Greene, 32-D432, x3-5897, greene@csail.mit.edu
Sponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Latest update: 22-Dec-2005
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