Tag Archives: Internet

Computers and Culture

As part of a continuing series of discussions on the history of information technology produced in collaboration with the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, Soundings features innovator Brewster Kahle. His latest brainchild is the Internet Archive, a large-scale digital information repository. … Continue reading

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Yahoo!

To some of us, the World Wide Web offers a daily adventure of finding new sites and information. To others, the Web is a welter of words and images. To help make sense of it all, Jerry Yang, one of … Continue reading

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The Cyber Agenda: Politics and the Power of the Internet

Lawrence K. Grossman and James Kinsella discuss and describe how new technologies such as the Internet, online magazines, and interactive cable systems are replacing our shared experience of the front page, nightly news on TV, and conventional magazines.  Grossman and Kinsella … Continue reading

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Internet Pioneer

Robert Kahn reflects on his role in the history and social implications of information technology. Kahn is the founder of the Internet and his influence on the growth of information technology is widely known in industry and government. He is … Continue reading

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West Virginia Wired; Commentary

Governor Gaston Caperton is the winner of the Zenith Data Systems Information Technology Leadership Award for Education, presented in recent ceremonies in Washington at the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program. Gov. Caperton talks about a highly successful model for computer technology … Continue reading

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Civic Journalism & Cyberspace

An opinion that even though the flow of information in our society has never been greater, journalism in America has surrendered the high ground of serious reporting to entertainment, hasty analysis, and poor research. However, because of new technologies such … Continue reading

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High Tech Democracy

“In part four of a series funded by the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, technology policy expert David Lytel discusses the internet and its implications for democracy in the long-term and for the 1996 presidential race. Lytel developed the White House Internet web … Continue reading

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Casting the Internet

“The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and Soundings collaborate to present cyberspace pioneer Robert Metcalfe. Inventor of the Ethernet and executive correspondent for InfoWorld Magazine, Metcalfe talks about the history, evolution, and culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” … Continue reading

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Learning Online

Part of the series of discussions on the history, culture, and ethics of information technology with the cooperation of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program. 779 – Learning Online

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