Re: Wolfram Alpha

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:43 -0700

Kim Jones wrote:
> http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10240&m=41581
> <http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10240&m=41581>
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> Universities and schools should now re-invent themselves. We no longer
> need any "institution" to dole out knowledge because all (non-fuzzy
> factual) knowledge can be downloaded from the Net.

Along with an enormous amount of fuzzy, non-factual ignorance.

>
> Education can now only have a future by teaching skills

Like B.S. detection.

Brent Meeker
"The internet is a pornography delivery medium occasionally used for
other purposes."
          --- George Carlin

> - meaning: what you DO with that knowledge, also how to invent the
> future without having to continually compare every new idea to
> existing knowledge - the current paradigm and way too slow. Time is
> running out fast.
>
> Hint: teach creative thinking
>
> Huh? What's that? Don't we already do that? etc.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Kim Jones
>
>
> There are no /surprising facts about reality/, only /models/ of
> it that are /surprised by/ facts
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