Sunday, November 28, 2004
free language classes online.
i'm very excited about the open source revolution bringing free education to the masses. i've posted recently about free math books online,and places like gutenberg and bartleby that have classics and other public domain works.
i have not yet found one central clearing house for free online education.
if there is not one yet, there will be.
and with ebooks and pdas and wireless networks and smarter phones and moore's law and ubiquitous computing, the hardware to go with it will come along as well.
this not only feeds the transition to the post-scarcity economy, it also brings on the singularity. 6 billion people having access to free kindergarten-to-phd education, if they want it, is going to change the costs of basic research. millions of eyeballs, networks of supercomputers, mean that for a given problem, from fermat's theory to preventing cancer to encouraging bush and castro to retire, a great deal of intellegence can be focused on the problem at low cost. the net is not allknowing, allpresent, or allpowerful, but it is more knowing, more present, more powerful, than before. the classical model of economics assumed perfect comptetion, costless complete information, zero transaction costs.
these were simplifying assumptions used in model-building, with no claim to represent the real world. but the net is making the real world look more like the model.
Abenaki Ainu Albanian Arabic Aramaic Armenian Asturian
Basque Bengali Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan
Cebuano Chamorro Cherokee Chichewa Chinese Chinook Cornish
Cree Creole Croatian Czech Dakota Danish Dutch
English Esperanto Estonian Finnish French Frisian Gaelic
Galician German Greek Gujarati Haida Hawaiian Hebrew
Hiligaynon Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian
Ivatan Japanese Kapampangan Khmer Kiribati Korean Kurdish
Lao Latin Latvian Lezgian Lithuanian Luganda Malay
Malayalam Maltese Mandinka Marathi Mingo Mon Norwegian
Pali Papiamentu Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua
Romanian Rotuman Russian Samoan Sanskrit Sesotho Serbian
Sicilian Sinhala Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog
Tahitian Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Turkish Tzotzil
Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Wollof Xhosa -
i'm very excited about the open source revolution bringing free education to the masses. i've posted recently about free math books online,and places like gutenberg and bartleby that have classics and other public domain works.
i have not yet found one central clearing house for free online education.
if there is not one yet, there will be.
and with ebooks and pdas and wireless networks and smarter phones and moore's law and ubiquitous computing, the hardware to go with it will come along as well.
this not only feeds the transition to the post-scarcity economy, it also brings on the singularity. 6 billion people having access to free kindergarten-to-phd education, if they want it, is going to change the costs of basic research. millions of eyeballs, networks of supercomputers, mean that for a given problem, from fermat's theory to preventing cancer to encouraging bush and castro to retire, a great deal of intellegence can be focused on the problem at low cost. the net is not allknowing, allpresent, or allpowerful, but it is more knowing, more present, more powerful, than before. the classical model of economics assumed perfect comptetion, costless complete information, zero transaction costs.
these were simplifying assumptions used in model-building, with no claim to represent the real world. but the net is making the real world look more like the model.
Abenaki Ainu Albanian Arabic Aramaic Armenian Asturian
Basque Bengali Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan
Cebuano Chamorro Cherokee Chichewa Chinese Chinook Cornish
Cree Creole Croatian Czech Dakota Danish Dutch
English Esperanto Estonian Finnish French Frisian Gaelic
Galician German Greek Gujarati Haida Hawaiian Hebrew
Hiligaynon Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian
Ivatan Japanese Kapampangan Khmer Kiribati Korean Kurdish
Lao Latin Latvian Lezgian Lithuanian Luganda Malay
Malayalam Maltese Mandinka Marathi Mingo Mon Norwegian
Pali Papiamentu Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua
Romanian Rotuman Russian Samoan Sanskrit Sesotho Serbian
Sicilian Sinhala Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog
Tahitian Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Turkish Tzotzil
Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Wollof Xhosa -
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