The Big Picture
January 23, 2007
Commentary by Stephen Downes

Review of Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg. Nice overview of some of the problems associated with fashioning a 'grand vision' in actual computer code. It's one thing to say "no silos" but quite another to make it work on the computer. Language warning.

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