Kyle and Dylan have an open discussion of the pains of debugging code and the lack of permanence of online content. Also: Jeremy Keith hates Yahoo, the death of the news media, the Library of Alexandria, and Statgirl lets us down.
http://3rdaverad.io/shows/squirrel-and-moose/episodes/grizzly-bears-of-rhodesia/
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Aleks Krotoski explores our lives in the digital world. This week she asks, are our ever more connected lives actually making us lonelier? Produced by Victoria McArthur and researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy.
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What is it about the digital world that encourages normal people to disregard the rules of everyday life? Is it the cloak of anonymity the net offers? The social rules of online communities? Or simply human nature? This week, Aleks Krotostki delves into the dark side of the digital world to explore whether or not the internet fuels the breakdown of social and moral boundaries. She speaks to a troll who claims Jesus and Socrates as her forebears, Dave Eshleman who was one of the guards in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and Professor Alex Haslam who recreated the experiment for the BBC, with startlingly different results.
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In education, Negroponte explained, there’s a fundamental distinction between "instructionism" and "constructionism." "Constructionism is learning by discovery, by doing, by making. Instructionism is learning by being told." Negroponte’s lifelong friend Seymour Papert noted early on that debugging computer code is a form of "learning about learning" and taught it to young children.
Thus in 2000 when Negroponte left the Media Lab he had founded in 1985, he set out upon the ultimate constructionist project, called "One Laptop per Child." His target is the world’s 100 million kids who are not in school because no school is available. Three million of his laptops and tablets are now loose in the world. One experiment in an Ethiopian village showed that illiterate kids can take unexplained tablets, figure them out on their own, and begin to learn to read and even program.
In the "markets versus mission" perspective, Negroponte praised working through nonprofits because they are clearer and it is easier to partner widely with people and other organizations. He added that "start-up businesses are sucking people out of big thinking. So many minds that used to think big are now thinking small because their VCs tell them to ‘focus.’"
As the world goes digital, Negroponte noted, you see pathologies of left over "atoms thinking." Thus newspapers imagine that paper is part of their essence, telecoms imagine that distance should cost more, and nations imagine that their physical boundaries matter. "Nationalism is the biggest disease on the planet," Negroponte said. "Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing." He predicted that the world is well on the way to having one language, English.
Negroponte reflected on a recent visit to a start-up called Modern Meadow, where they print meat. "You get just the steak—-no hooves and ears involved, using one percent of the water and half a percent of the land needed to get the steak from a cow." In every field we obsess on the distinction between synthetic and natural, but in a hundred years "there will be no difference between them."
Aleks Krotoski explores the difficulties of unpicking our lives from another, in both the physical and digital worlds. Produced by Peter McManus and Victoria McArthur. Researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy.
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Aleks Krotoski explores when captivates and beguiles and asks if the digital world can measure up to the real one.
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On April fool’s day Aleks Krotoski explores the notion of mischief in the digital world.
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Dick speaks with Brewster Kahle, who is collecting copies of all the books he can from around the world.
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2012-05/whole-library-his-hands
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Digital pranks may sometimes have a negative image but we hear from people who say they’re a necessary force for good and for progress.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/pranks-and-tricksters/4489512
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Young Americans are reading more than just status updates and 140-character tweets. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that among 16- to 29-year-olds, 8 in 10 have read a book in the past year. That’s compared with 7 in 10 among adults in general.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/23/163414069/americas-facebook-generation-is-reading-strong
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