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"I think if you look at the Harvard web presence as well as the Kennedy School web presence, one thing that you'll notice is that they're pretty disconnected, and this is a reflection of the fact that a lot of the research that's going on at the school is somewhat disconnected even though people are really researching the same area. And I think creating the technological links goes hand-in-hand and should occur simultaneously with creating human links..." — Warigia Bowman Doctoral Student in Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University
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I agree in general--technological and human links should be forged together. This doesn't mean that they must.
For example, Googling "internet regulation" at <http://www.google.com/harvard> give me a list of various More...
I think John's distinction between informational linking and something you might call correlational linking is worth extending a bit. In the former, the information flows in one direction (I made More...
Since these are such general questions, for the purposes of this response I will limit their scope, and examine them in the context of web technology (specifically the web browser). More...
I agree with jarmstrong’s observations regarding the interrelationship between human relationships and technological innovation, having said something similar in my initial posting on this theme :-).
Reading his comments about More...
The question points to "personal relationships" and technology, but much of what Warigia talks about has to do with inter- and intra-institutional relationships and cultural norms (in any number of More...
I'd like to expand on the thoughts concerning the centrifugal and centripetal forces--those forces "allowing concentration/amplification of exiting relationships" and those forcing the "splaying . . . cross-disciplinary efforts."
Imagine More...
Part of the problem is information dissemination, another part is mining.
In dissemination, we ought to syndicate content and have a harvard wide aggregator. We ought to have a harvard More...
I am part of a living, breathing virtual network of public health professionals working on problems of public health in war zones, community and inter-agency response to famine and epidemics More...
A few thoughts:
I believe that there is an iterative interaction between the introduction of new technology and people’s use of the technology in their interpersonal relationships. Often, the early More...
Are one of those second stream adopters that have really shown the value of this technology.
Warigia's point is at once obvious and fundamental. Technology that is not used or used well is of little or no value (worse, perhaps it's simply a cost to society More...
I agree that "In the best case scenario...technology, through our interaction, improves...what we're doing and how we do it". As such, we ought to question how the disconnect Warigia alludes More...
As always, technology can only supplement or enhance existing relationships, not create them independently. The closest one might come to the latter would be having your research show up on More...