INFO 202 Lecture 15: week 15 p2
4/26 – Current and Future Issues
Makerspaces and The Maker Movement
• What is a makerspace?
o A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate
public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing, that uses high tech to
no tech tools
• Key concepts
o Innovation
▪ The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that
creates value or for which customers will pay
o Interaction
o Discovery
▪ Open collaborative environment encourages and enhances discovery. People
are able to discover new and exciting things on their own or in collaboration
o Collaboration
▪ Collaboration allows people to get together to discuss common interests and to
gain new knowledge
o Invention
▪ Patrons are able to build/invent unique products as individuals or as groups
Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Technology
• Bitcoin
o Developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudonym)
o Value comes through distributed computing power
o Consists of 100 million units (called satoshi)
o Each coin is cryptographic address; part of its creator block
The Noosphere
• A sphere of human thought
• Deeloped Pierre Teilhard de Chardi i the earl 9’s
• De Chardin developed the idea of collective consciousness among other fairly far-out concepts
• the poit of the osos is to ahiee ultidiesioal holeess.
The Semantic Web
• Semantic web – content in natural language, accessible / useable by automated tools Web 2.0
→ We .
• The “eati We “ir Ti Berers-Lee (2001)) web content that can be expressed as natural
language and also be useable by automated tools allowing human and machine findability and
use (Morville pp. 121-122 and Wikipedia)
• Depedet upo etadata: desriptie iforatio used to ide, arrage, file ad iproe
aess to… resoures Morille p. 5 fro Gillilad-Swerland)
Building Objects and Documents
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