Knowledge Technology & Policy articles from June 2000

Knowledge Technology & Policy archives from June 2000

Foreword.
June 22, 2000... Dear Readers, Firstly, I would like to apologize to Board Member and author Daniel Klein. His article "Policy Medicine Versus Policy Quackery" [Volume 13, #1--still in press per 1 October 00 (the complete issue was sent in 23 June, the...

Techscope.
June 22, 2000... (An Occasional Survey of Comment & Events) Stopping an Epidemic of Bad Etiquette reprinted with permission from The Standard (on-line). We recently took a look at legislative efforts aimed at cell phone users. Now we examine the...

IT in Western Culture: A New Technology with Ancient Roots.(information technology)
June 22, 2000... What is the cultural and social significance of the Internet in the Western world? I shall argue that the Internet is a flower of the Western mind--not a fleur du mal but rather a product of the most deeply rooted, humane and cherished values...

Free Cities.(relationship between a free market system and cities)
June 22, 2000... Contrary to modern political assumptions, the dense city, not the quiet office suburb, is the facilitator of market capitalism. Throughout history, cities have been the creator of wealth, the breeder of genius, and the market for art,...

Franco-American Spaghetti: Multicultural Distance Education.
June 22, 2000... Resume Dans cet article, on s'attache a decrire une expeience d'enseignement a distance biculturelle franco-americaine pendant l'annee universitaire 1997/ 98. Les etudiants d'une classe de [2.sup.e] annee du departement GEA (option GAPMO...

TV and the Internet: Pitfalls in Forecasting the Future.
June 22, 2000... Some of these ideas originally appeared in "The Future of Television, the Audience, and the Internet: Reflections and Potholes on the Information Super-Hypeway" in French translation in M. Pichette's (Ed.) 1996, Vivre avec les medias: ca...

Tysons Corner, Virginia.
June 22, 2000... Beginning around the time of the Sputnik crisis of 1957, a number of specialized, defense-related firms moved to the Washington, D.C. area. Their primary function was vague: they often defined their work as "systems integration"--but that was...

The Presentation of Self in Community: A Tale of Two Cities.
June 22, 2000... The two towns are Carbondale in southern Illinois and Sarzeau in southern Brittany. Carbondale is a town of 26,000 and is home to a Carnegie II University. It has a humid continental climate. January can be sub-zero but there are also days...

The New Know-Nothings.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The New Know-Nothings, by Morton Hunt. Transaction Publishers, Piscataway, NJ, 1999 Morton Hunt's latest book is an astonishing but impeccably researched description of modern-day attempts to halt scientific research. No single political...

High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian.(Review)
June 22, 2000... High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian, by Clifford Stoll. Doubleday, New York, 1999. As I walked down the aisles in the cavernous McCormick Place exhibits during a...

A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions, edited by Ronald Utt and Jane Shaw. The Heritage Foundation and PERC (The Political Economy Research Center), 2000. Smart Growth is a timely and relevant discourse for everyone...

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert Park. Oxford University Press, 2000. Television news likes science. Or rather, it likes "science," especially those interesting bits that lie on the "fringes" of "science," and...

Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech, by Paulina Borsook. New York: Public Affairs, 2000. Paulina Borsook is hardly an unbiased anthropologist reporting on the natives of Silicon Valley from a...