[p2p-research] Implications of Alpha

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Ryan,

this is reminiscent of our debate on the future of universities ... it's an
area we differ in I guess,

for me, nothing will ever replace the written and verbal dialogue between
humans and everything is only a tool to make that better ...

yes, perhaps the research paper and blog post will take a more relative
place in the broader whole because people are more able to have intelligent
dialogues without middlemen

but the research paper is still needed as validation mechanism in the
existing institutional framework and I don't see a quick end to the
democratisation of writing through blogs either ..

Michel

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been thinking about Wolfram's Alpha.  The question I'd like to ask him
> is, what will it change.
>
> I saw JOHO's (David Weinberger's) interview.  It was fascinating.
>
> Here's my 2 cents:  The research paper and the informing blog post may be
> dead.  Yes, stringing ideas together to make a point is still useful, but
> now anyone can answer a question properly structured.  So, ideas may become
> more changes of queries.
>
> Another separate point, Michel recently sent around an academic Call for
> Papers for a P2P conference.  Isn't that a bit odd, inherently?  A COP on
> P2P?
>
>
> Ryan Lanham
>
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