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Back in 2003, as a hard-working, dedicated civil servant in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, I told my manager (now retired) that I wanted to learn more about massive, multi-player online games and other virtual worlds. What patterns of communication occur in virtual worlds? Voice communication seemed to me likely to become a significant aspect … Continue reading government employees in virtual world
Most ancient Greek inscriptions, including most funerary epitaphs, are prosaic. Patrons seem to have written the inscriptions that they themselves wanted. … Read the post ancient Greek inscriptions: some early content economics
Aneesh Chopra talks about how open data can enable innovation in health, education, and care for the environment. … Read the post platforms for sharing data and local innovation
Robert Frank’s The Americans is a monument to natural selection in photography. For nine months in 1955-56, Frank traveled across the U.S. and photographed natural (not posed, not arranged for photographing) subjects. He made about 27,000 photographs in this part of his project. Then he spent a year selecting, editing, and sequencing photographs from this … Continue reading success of selection in photography
Symbolic innovation and special forms of communication apparently spurred the earliest, enduring gatherings of large groups of humans. The city at Tell Brak (Nagar) in northern Mesopotamia grew starting about 7,000 years ago to a resident population of about 10,000 persons 5,600 years ago. Tell Brak grew mainly through the communicative process of population agglomeration, … Continue reading communication drove civilization