Comments on: [cyberinf] Cyber-enabled knowledge http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/21/cyberinf-cyber-enabled-knowledge/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: “Cyberinfrastructure, Innovation, and University Policy” notes at Pure Information http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/21/cyberinf-cyber-enabled-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-28716 “Cyberinfrastructure, Innovation, and University Policy” notes at Pure Information Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:33:53 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/21/cyberinf-cyber-enabled-knowledge/#comment-28716 [...] Cyber-Enabled Knowledge The Empowered University in the Global Economy Designing for Integration and Collaboration On the [...] [...] Cyber-Enabled Knowledge The Empowered University in the Global Economy Designing for Integration and Collaboration On the [...]

]]> By: Crosbie Fitch http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/21/cyberinf-cyber-enabled-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-27815 Crosbie Fitch Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:39:25 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/21/cyberinf-cyber-enabled-knowledge/#comment-27815 I'm reminded of the discussion in Hitchhiker's Guide, where the key issues concerning the introduction of the wheel to the denizens of prehistoric Earth are held up by arguments as to what colour it should be. How difficult can dissemination of knowledge be? On one side we have universities as producers of knowledge wondering how best to disseminate it to the rest of mankind, and bang smack in front of them on the other side they have the interplanetary instantaneous diffusion device known as the Internet, and they're hesitating... Only just now I search for a particular paper, find it as a PDF on ACM and I have to pay to become a member in order to read it. Now I wonder if the authors of all ACM papers don't want their work read by cheapskates such as myself who refuse to pay on principle? How could they suffer if I did, I wonder? I’m reminded of the discussion in Hitchhiker’s Guide, where the key issues concerning the introduction of the wheel to the denizens of prehistoric Earth are held up by arguments as to what colour it should be.

How difficult can dissemination of knowledge be?

On one side we have universities as producers of knowledge wondering how best to disseminate it to the rest of mankind, and bang smack in front of them on the other side they have the interplanetary instantaneous diffusion device known as the Internet, and they’re hesitating…

Only just now I search for a particular paper, find it as a PDF on ACM and I have to pay to become a member in order to read it. Now I wonder if the authors of all ACM papers don’t want their work read by cheapskates such as myself who refuse to pay on principle? How could they suffer if I did, I wonder?

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