What do people really need to know about the Net?

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• Professor John Naughton
• Tuesday 01 March 2011, 18:00-19:15
• Seminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue from OCR).

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ABSTRACT

For the last 18 months I’ve been working on a book project aimed at addressing the surprising level of public ignorance about the Internet and its implications. What, I wondered, is the minimal set of concepts that laymen—and women—would need to grasp in order to have a rounded appreciation of the Internet phenomenon? Drawing on the work of George Miller, I’ve come up with his ‘magical number’ of ideas, which I will outline in my presentation. I’ll be intrigued to know what an informed audience makes of them.

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John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, a Fellow of Wolfson, the Observer’s Internet columnist, Academic Adviser to the Arcadia Project and an inveterate blogger.

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