CitationsAdd new citationShow all for map Building a ‘Knowosphere,’ One Cable and Campus at a Time
Author: Andrew C. Revkin - Dot Earth
Cited by: David Price 7:18 AM Tuesday 27 March 2012 GMT
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| | Excerpt / Summary Now here’s my broader take on what I’ve begun calling the “knowosphere” — a word intentionally echoing the more allegorical “noosphere,” the “planet of the mind” of Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Whatever term you use, it’s clear that the world is quickly being knitted by new ways to share observations and shape ideas that are bound to have profound impacts on the quality of the human journey. (“Knowosphere” has also been used by Larry Kilham, an entrepreneur and inventor who has been writing about how to remain innovative in the age of Google.) |
Fostering Progress on a Finite (and Budget Strapped) Planet
Author: Andrew C. Revkin - Dot Earth
Cited by: David Price 7:08 AM Tuesday 27 March 2012 GMT
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| | Excerpt / Summary My goal under my academic hat is to start building an online learning environment, for lack of a better phrase, aimed at fostering reasoned, constructive discourse to shape and share ideas that can potentially smooth the human journey over the next few decades. |
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