From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 11:20:49 MST
> I've been pondering the basic question of educationing the masses
> of the currently uneducated.
>
> My favorite paradigm is Neal Stephanson's "Diamond Age" or "A young
> Ladies Illustrated Primer".
>
> What if instead of waiting for the hardware, we were to attempt to
> immplement this in software, via the WWW. The anyone could access
> it via an appropriately equipped Internet connection/device.
>
> The initial version could be in english, but readily translatable.
See http://www.wikipedia.com/ and http://www.nupedia.com for some
attempts. They still have a long way to go before becoming useful
primers, but they do seem to be heading in the right direction
(which is why I'm spending a lot of time there).
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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