The Internet, Distance Learning, and the Future of the Research University: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, May 9, 2000, Volume 4 |
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Page 118 - The death of distance as a determinant of the cost of communications will probably be the single most important economic force shaping society in the first half of the next century.
Page 77 - The impact of information technology will be even more radical than the harnessing of steam and electricity in the 19th century. Rather it will be more akin to the discovery of fire by early ancestors, since it will prepare the way for a revolutionary leap into a new age that will profoundly transform human culture. —Jacques Attali...
Page 89 - From our experience with other restructured sectors of the economy such as health care, transportation, communications, and energy, we could expect to see a significant reorganization of higher education, complete with the mergers, acquisitions, new competitors, and new products and services that have characterized other economic transformations. More generally, we may well be seeing the early stages of the appearance of a global knowledge and learning industry, in which the activities of traditional...
Page 90 - The market forces unleashed by technology and driven by increasing demand for higher education are very powerful. If they are allowed to dominate and reshape the higher education enterprise, we could well find ourselves facing a brave, new world in which some of the most important values and traditions of the university fall by the wayside.
Page 78 - Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book.
Page 79 - I wonder at times if we are not like the dinosaurs, looking up at the sky at the approaching asteroid and wondering whether it has an implication for our future. (Frank Rhodes, president emeritus, Cornell University) While most others believe the university will survive the digital age, few deny that it could change dramatically in form and character. Of course, our society has been through other periods of dramatic change driven by technology, for example, the impact of the steam engine, telephone,...
Page 66 - BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON BASIC RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES...
Page 84 - ... drawing more on the experience of the artist than upon analytical skills of the scientist. The Library The preservation of knowledge is one of the most rapidly changing functions of the university. The computer— or more precisely, the "digital convergence...