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264 Notes to Pages 156–164
56. Sonia Livingstone, ‘‘How Children Use Media Today’’ (speech delivered at
the conference ‘‘OroOro Teachers Lab,’’ Amsterdam, January 25, 2001, available at
http://www.teacherslab.hva.nl/transcripties/html/livingstonetrans.html).
57. Douglas Rushkoff, quoted in Chris Mitchell, ‘‘Making Sense of the Future’’
(interview with Douglas Rushkoff), Spike (February 1997), available at http://www
.spikemagazine.com/0297rush.htm.
58. J. C. Herz, ‘‘50,000,000 Star Warriors Can’t Be Wrong,’’ Wired 10, no. 6 ( June
2002), available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/lucasarts.html.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Statistics from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cited in Marcia L. Conner, ‘‘Perpetual
Innovation through Informal Learning,’’ Business Know-How (September 2004),
available at http://www.businessknowhow.com/growth/innovation.htm.
63. Pekka Himanen, The Hacker Ethic, and the Spirit of the Information Age (New York:
Random House, 2001), 205.
8 Literacy
1. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (New York: Little Brown, 2000).
2. William Horton, Designing and Writing Online Documentation (New York: Wiley,
1994).
3. Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (London: Little Brown, 1998).
4. Horton, Designing and Writing Online Documentation.
5. Ibid.
6. Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian, ‘‘How Much Information 2003?’’ (research report,
School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley,
2003, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much
-info-2003).
7. For a theoretical analysis of the information explosion, see Pierre Levy, The Virtual
Economy, available at http://www.chairetmetal.com/levy-ang2.htm.
8. Danny Hillis, ‘‘High-Speed Information’’ (presentation at Doors of Perception 4:
Speed, Amsterdam, November 7, 1996).
9. A recent development is that several dozen companies, government agencies, and
universities have banded together in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).