Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute
NASIG 2014: Taking Stock & Taming New Frontiers Ft. Worth, Texas May 1, 2014
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The Educopia Institute advances cultural, scientific, and scholarly institutions by catalyzing networks and collaborative communities.
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“Density of increase of population of the United States 1890 to 1900.” Compiled by Henry Gannett, Geographer. (United States Census Office, 1903). Julius Bien & Co., N.Y. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~32078~1151420:Density-of-increase-of-population-o
Source: www.discovermoab.com
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Dallas Elks parade, National Reunion, 1908, Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/131
Beware changes in the modes of communication…
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
Beware changes in the modes of communication!
Innovations don’t come from the center, they come from unexpected
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Dog looking at and listening to a phonograph. Francis Barraud's 1895 painting of Nipper looking into an Edison Bell cylinder phonograph.
Cultural processes of production, distribution, and reception
depend upon…
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System-‐wide change requires system-‐wide involvement.
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Interdependence of systems
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With evolution, we used to think the strongest survive. We now know the
most flexible adapt.
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