Word: wiredness
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Adding to their enthusiasm for the Internet world is the fact that they are, in essence, staying in a field they already know. Raised alongside the fledgling computer industry, they practiced math with DOS-based "Number Munchers" and presented their senior theses as web sites rather than 100-page printouts...
The number of schools granting online degrees has doubled in the past year, according to a study released last week. The distance-education craze has spawned cyber-only schools like Jones International University, whose Colorado-based operation offers online courses to 500 students in 30 countries. Traditional campuses are also...
This discomfort has been evident in the recent debates about TECH, Harvard's proposed center for technological exploration. Proponents have likened TECH to the IOP; somewhere students can go to play around with bleeding edge technology, gain programming skills that they can't get in class, get support for Web...
What is new is difficult. It has not yet taken full shape; it is not yet trustworthy, but it is extremely powerful. Splitting the atom, discovering radiation, Keynesian economics, postructuralism, relativity and now computerization: all are the results of great social debate and change, and all have their share of...
"When we wired the campus, people asked us if we would really need e-mail and now, of course, it's essential," says Huidekoper.