The other information revolution

Democratizing the Information Revolution

1 Dewey, Mitra, and the “Technological Proletariat:” Democratizing the Information Revolution John Hartmann, Southern Illinois University [email protected] Pragmatism and Technological Practice Conference Rochester Institute of Technology February 14, 2003 Do not cite w/o permission – comments are always welcome Introduction In his 1939 essay, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us,” John De...

Information Revolution

OUTLINE 1. What is information revolution? 2. What are the advantages of information in electronic form? 3. What is hyper-text? 4. Where are Indian languages in the information revolution? 4.1 Digital content 4.2 Machine translation 4.3 Speech 4.4 Optical character recognition 4.5 Search and knowledge organization 4.6 Other applications 5. Relevant technologies 5.1 Basic research 6. Are compute...

THE INformaTIoN aNd INTErNET rEvoluTIoN

Not since the industrial revolution have people all over the world experienced such dramatic business and lifestyle changes as are now occurring due to information technology (IT) in general and to the Internet specifically. According to the RAND organization (Hundley, 2004): Advances in information technology are affecting most segments of business, society, and governments today in many if no...

Oncology and the Information Revolution

As clinical oncologists, we are experiencing unprecedented challenges to our research and therapeutic and practice management skills brought on by the necessity to manage the geometric increase in medical information and the striking changes in the clinical practice of oncology demanded by managed competition. The clinical oncologist must be a clinician, researcher, educator, businessperson, st...

The Mathematics of the Information Revolution