The world we want: Emerging communities, emerging information

Garrett, John R.

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Title

The world we want: Emerging communities, emerging information

Author(s)

Garrett, John R.

Issue Date

1994

Keyword(s)

Community networks

Abstract

"I will argue here that distributed digital information, seamlessly integrated into a comprehensive National Information Infrastructure, is essential to realizing Rorty's secular, communitarian vision: the creation and sharing of knowledge about what it means to be ""merely human."" But creating the infrastructure will also require creating a version, at least, of Rorty's democratic community. I believe that this will depend, in large measure, on the ability of the many organizations and interest groups in the information universe to transcend their narrow, absolute views of past, present, and future, and create if only for a little while the integrated, democratic communities that Rorty envisions: communities of experimentation, communities of trust."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Emerging communities : integrating networked information into library services [papers presented the 1993 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 4-6, 1993]

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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