this is a great insight. Shirky is all the rage right now, so I'll need to read/listen to more of what he is is saying to get a better handle on it to make sense of this.
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“. . . when new technology appears, previously impossible things start occurring. If enough of those impossible things are important and happen in a bundle, quickly, the change becomes a revolution. The hallmark of a revolution is that the goals of the revolution cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the existing society. As a result, either the revolutionaries are put down, or some of those institutions are altered, replaced, or destroyed.”
Schools’ bans on cell phones and iPods as well as highly restrictive content filtering, in my eyes, are schools’ attempts to “put down the revolutionaries.” I don’t know how much longer this will hold the revolutionaries at bay. How successful have recording companies been in reducing file sharing by suing the people who are sharing files?
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“Many institutions we rely on today will not survive this change without significant alteration, and the more an institution or industry relies on information as its core product, the greater and more complete the change will be.”
Dissemination of information is the reason for the existence of schools. I think education is ill-prepared to deal with the change that is coming.
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I am not excited about transcending "geography is destiny." It's just another manifestation of what Robert Putnam called "bowling alone"—where fear of rubbing elbows with those who are different keeps us from building genuine communities.
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