Today, to search is to google. Specifically, it is to use Google’s search engine to nd something on the Web. As for those other searches that once helped de ne the human condition—for meaning, love, purpose, or God—those have, in little more than a decade, assumed almost secondary importance. From its now almost apocryphal beginnings…
Auf die Frage, was zukunftsfähiges Wissen ist, hat der Sozialpsychologe Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer gleich zu Beginn eine überraschende Antwort. Wie viel diese Antwort mit Unterscheidungsvermögen, Urteilskraft und der Tauglichkeit von unterschiedlichen Wissenstypen zu tun hat, erläutert er in seinem Vortrag, den er anlässlich der Tagung "Die Zukunft der Wissensspeicher" gehalten hat. Dabei greift er auf autobiographische Erzählformen zurück und beweist sowohl durch seinen eigenen Werdegang als auch in seiner besonderen Art des Vortrags einmal mehr, dass unkonventionelles Denken zu untypischen, bisher wenig gedachten und insgesamt weiterführenden Antworten führen kann.
Die Wissensspeicher der Zukunft werden Netzwerke sein. Diese Ansicht vertritt Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn vom Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Wie Netzwerke die Produktion und Verbreitung von Wissen beeinflussen, davon berichtet Prof. Renn in seinem Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Die Zukunft der Wissensspeicher". Dabei liefert er nicht nur begriffliche Überlegungen, sondern gibt auch historische Beispiele für Wissensnetzwerke von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit. Hiervon ausgehend werden im Anschluss Prognosen und Forderungen für das Internet als Wissensnetzwerk der Zukunft formuliert.
IFs is a computer simulation of global systems for classroom and research use. IFs can be used to teach about or study demographics, economics, food, energy, the environment, and international politics.
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Leaders are light and mentor for their followers. In organizational life cycle leaders go through many good and bad times. They share their memories and live events from daily circle in their organization. Although, there could be bad experiences too. Sometime leader must have to fight for their survival.
A two-year AHRC-funded research project exploring the future of the academic book. The Academic Book of the Future Project is funded by the AHRC in collaboration with the British Library, and looks at how scholarly work in the Arts and Humanities will be produced, read, and preserved in coming years. We’re exploring key questions like…
Ever since Michael Crichton published Jurassic Park in 1990, followed by the classic Spielberg film three years later, there has been a popular urban legend that blood-engorged mosquito fossils are common and that a real Jurassic Park is possible someday. In fact, fossilized mosquitoes are fairly rare, and even rarer are fossils of mosquitoes or other blood-sucking insects where there is evidence of blood in their stomachs from their latest victim—to date what has been discovered is only a couple mosquito fossils (one was discovered recently), a few sandflies, and an assassin bug. Unfortunately being able to extract DNA from blood that is now fossilized is a complete fantasy. So there never will be a Jurassic Park, except at the movies.
The International Council for Science (ICSU), International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) invite applications for participation from post-doctoral researchers interested in integrated science and collaboration between the social and natural sciences.
Now is the time for business leaders across a wide array of sectors to question their assumptions. They should consider how critical uncertainties with respect to the differentiated evolution of the energy and power infrastructure around the world might impact their businesses and their corporate, innovation and investment strategies.
On Friday Barack Obama will talk about the future of the NSA. He will have to restore public trust in government. But what will happen if he fails? (by Shoshana Zuboff)
Wikipedia ist die letzte große Website, die kein Geld verdienen will. Chefin Sue Gardner hat sie vom Nerdprojekt zur beliebtesten Enzyklopädie der Welt gemacht. Jetzt will sie noch mehr: das Internet befreien.
After showing Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg spent a few minutes talking about the future of computing. What he said is the epitome of a vision statement, and it sets the philosophy driving Facebook&#... | Villain. Creator of Svbtle. • Dustin Curtis’s blog
Julian Oliver has put his finger smack on the pulse. The paradox is what economists call a supply-and-demand imbalance: Surging demand for 24/7 news has become inversely proportional to the supply of quality journalism.
The Elon University/Pew Internet Project site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast is a multi-section resource containing thousands of pages. It exposes future possibilities while simultaneously providing a peek back at the past. In it, you will find the words of thousands of people from every corner of the world, from today and from yesterday, making thousands of predictive pronouncements about the future of humankind.