Knowledge Technology & Policy articles from January 2000

Knowledge Technology & Policy archives from January 2000

Foreword.
January 1, 2000... This issue is split between issues of epistemology and privacy. Both are, of course, aspects of knowing. David Ellerman is concerned about the efficacy between creditors and debtors when the latter parrots instead of knows, when the debtor...

Techscope.
January 1, 2000... (An Occasional Survey of Comment & Events) Help! OSHA's Slipped and It Can Get Lip, from "C\SPIN" (6 Jan 2000), an occasional commentary on regulation of high technology, by Policy Analyst Jessica Melugin. C\SPIN is produced by the...

Knowledge-Based Development Assistance.
January 1, 2000... Methodology: The Standard Theory-in-Use The problem is that of a development agency trying to help some group, the "doers of development,"(1) in need of development assistance (e.g., policy-makers and government officials in a developing...

Why Johnny Can't Think and Neither Can His Local Journalist, Doctor, Architect, or Teacher or The Shift in Epistemological Styles that No One Really Thought about While it: was Happening and Now Can't.
January 1, 2000... This article examines the Post-War shift in education from one epistemic "axle" to another. The original axle, regnant from the founding of the universities of Bologna and Salerno at the millennium until c. 1950, is referred to as "professional...

Privacy and the Encryption Debate.
January 1, 2000... ... trusting the government with your privacy is like trusting a Peeping Tom with your window blinds. --John Perry Barlow, "Introduction to PGP"(1) Regulated [weak] encryption would provide considerably greater security and privacy...

Networking America: The Cultural Context of Privacy v. Publicity(*).
January 1, 2000... If nothing new could be said about privacy beyond the dictionary notion that it is something secluded from the sight, presence or intrusion of others then our cultural elites would not be embroiled in debate about the problems of privacy as...

G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern.(Review)
January 1, 2000... G. B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern, by Mark Lilla. Harvard University Press, 1993 I read On the Study Methods of Our Time (1708) as an undergraduate, soon after it was published, and it made a lasting impression on me. Now it seems...

Hoodwinking the Nation.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Hoodwinking the Nation, by Julian L. Simon. Transaction Publishers, 1999 This book is based on the idea that using our natural resources and increasing populations is not the threat that most people believe it to be. Julian Simon treats...

Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge, by Bruce Thornton. ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware, 1999 For some of us who came of age during the strange and uproarious Aquarian intermezzo of the sixties, watching the...

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays, by Susan Haack. University of Chicago Press, 1998 Susan Haack's latest book consists of eleven essays coveting a range of topics in public and social philosophy (e.g., affirmative...

The Cathedral and the Bazaar.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric Raymond. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1999 Eric Raymond has written an important book about the origins, practice, and implications of open-source software. But you already knew that, didn't...

Innovative Simulations for Assessing Professional Competence: From Paper and Pencil to Virtual Reality.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Innovative Simulations for Assessing Professional Competence: From Paper and Pencil to Virtual Reality, by Ara Tekian, Christine McGuire, William McGaghie and Associates. Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999...