Future of Reading
Panelists talked about the future of reading and child literacy. Among the topics they addressed were the use of digital books, the impact of new technologies on the publishing industry, use…
800 viewsPanelists talked about the future of reading and child literacy. Among the topics they addressed were the use of digital books, the impact of new technologies on the publishing industry, use…
800 viewsNicholas Negroponte talked about his organization, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and its efforts to provide one Internet-connected laptop to every school-age child in developing countries. Th…
960 viewsMIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte took questions from an audience of students and faculty in an informal forum. The discussion ranged over a wide variety of topics, including the impact of t…
54 viewsIn a forum entitled, “A New Digital World: Is the State Irrelevant?” panelists talk about the obsolescence of traditional, nationally-oriented concepts in the emerging global network of comm…
104 viewsPanelists spoke about methods for protecting information on the Internet, especially encryption programs. They examined how secure digital communications are, both from intrusion by individu…
96 viewsThe House Energy subcommittee heard testimony from television and telecommunications industry officials on the rising industry surrounding high-definition television. Promoters of high-defin…
319 viewsThe American Association of Newspaper Editors reported results of a national readership survey conducted by the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. The survey looked at how people get their news, …
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