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The economy and the invisible barbed wire fence…

When I was a kid, I was lucky to have woods to run in. One day, in a fit of youthful exuberance, I was running down a creekbed at full speed when WHAM! I found myself laying on my back in the creek, dazed, confused and bloody. The day before a neighbor put up a new barbed wire fence around his property, and it ran across this creek directly in my path. Laying there, I still couldn’t see it as I had lost my glasses in the encounter. What happened?

I think the same thing happened to the world’s economy. It was running pell mell straight into an invisible wall and BLAMO! We still don’t know what we hit. I didn’t like it then, and I don’t like it now.

One thing I do know, the barbed wire fence didn’t keep me out of the woods, but I did have to change how I did things.

greg

The new educational paradigm

Just when you think you’ll never be able to afford a college education, along comes MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and turns all that on it’s head. Mit and it’s Open Courseware project aims to get all it’s courses, including video and audio of lectures, on the web by 2008, and of course, free! I sat thru an electronics lecture last saturday, and it was an eye opening experience.

Sadly this is not a degree program, and you don’t have access to faculty, but what you do have access to is knowledge. This takes libraries to a whole new level. They have a mission statement to the effect that they want to share their knowledge with the world… Just sharing it with me is ok!, but I guess we should include the rest of the world also.

Check it out at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Not only that, but several other institutions are following suit with their own versions of this very same thing… Ck out Berkeley at:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ or even on Itunes at:
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/

Well, gotta catch up on my Byzantine history… Greg

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