The Internet - The first Worldwide Tool of Unification ("The End of History")

" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... " Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)


German anti-hate speech group counters Facebook trolls

German anti-hate speech group counters Facebook trolls
Logo No Hate Speech Movement

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Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace. (Design of doodle by Kevin Laughlin)

Monday, March 9, 2009

Wolfram Alpha...Brilliant tool, Google killer, or lots of hype?

ZDNet, Posted by Christopher Dawson  March 9th, 2009 @ 2:32 am, 

Wolfram Alpha has been covered recently by everyone from ZDNet’s own Larry Dignan, to Techmeme, to Ars Technica, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and skepticism. 

Most of us in Ed Tech will recognize the name Wolfram from Mathematica fame and Wolfram’s Math World. The former is complex, but incredibly powerful software for mathematical investigations and visualizations and has made its way into a lot of high school and college math classrooms (as well as into industrial applications). The latter is the everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-math-but-were-afraid-to-ask website and is a huge resource for instructors and students at all levels of mathematics (beyond elementary school, at least). 


Wolfram Alpha, to be launched in May, is intended to do for search what Mathematica did for math software. I won’t requote Wolfram or the various analysts; their thoughts can all be found in the links above. The key point to take home, though, is that Alpha is designed to synthesize huge amounts of data on the Web and answer questions. 

Obviously, Google can do this too, but the question “What was the price of oil on February 3, 2007" yields over 19 million answers on Google. In theory, Wolfram Apha should give you one hit: the answer to your question.

Perhaps the real question to be asking is whether this is a good thing for Ed Tech. Do we want students to develop good search skills to navigate the incredible amount of data available to them on the web? Or is this the future of search and a new, powerful tool for students and teachers? 

I think it’s going to be the latter. NMC’s Horizon Report points to semantic-aware search as one of the top technologies to watch in the next 4-5 years. If Alpha works as planned, it’s already here. Regardless, this is a serious step closer to allowing students to retrieve data quickly and easily from the Web, without wasting time on fruitless searches. In fact, this will put students a lot closer to the information nirvana promised by the Internet, in which they can simply get and use the information they need without having to weed through countless pages of ad-driven nonsense.

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