Learning Communities are forming under our feet and through our electric and geographically positioned connections. Everett Rogers defines it as an innovation that reduces the uncertainty in a means-end relationship. But computers are even better at delivering in many ways, though not all. Schools as a place where people gather to listen to a person stand at the front of a room and lecture, to jot down notes and to receive assignments is an efficient means of disseminating information to many people. . . . Until the Internet came along.
People have potentialities and THAT is what learning communities are really all about.
Synergy and Convergence, not pigeon-hole and mass produce. Democrats are written all OVER it. Technology isn't about positions. Politics and language itself, they are really a kind of technologies too. Sure, cultural values play a large part in saying which technologies get adopted and which don't.