====== Introduction ======

//Lecture on 27.9.07//

For the first lecture of this course, we followed this presentation closely:

{{introduction.ppt}}


===== Links =====
  * [[http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/|Out of Control by Kevin Kelly]]
  * [[http://www.amazon.de/Wisdom-Crowds-Abacus-James-Surowiecki/dp/0349117071/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/028-6770078-6446905?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1191441468&sr=8-1|The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki]]
  * [[http://www.amazon.de/Infotopia-Many-Minds-Produce-Knowledge/dp/0195189280/ref=sr_1_1/028-6770078-6446905?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1191441517&sr=1-1|InfoTopia  by Cass Sunstein]]




===== Discussion Questions =====

  - What are the three most important advancements in technology in the past 50 years, and why?
    * My group thought the computer is the most important advancement in technology because it change the thinking, acting and behaviour of society in such a irreversible way. Today nearly nothing would work without interconnection.
    * Second important advancement is the computer (especially the personal computer) without it there would be no internet today.
    * My group thought this
  - How has the Internet qualitatively changed in the past 10 years?
    * My group ...
    * My group ...
  - What will the Internet look like 10 years from now?
    * My group ...
    * My group ...