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SUMMARY:What do people really need to know about the Net? - Professor John
  Naughton
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*ABSTRACT*\n\nFor the last 18 months I've been working on a bo
 ok project aimed at addressing the surprising level of public ignorance ab
 out 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\nMiller\, I've come up with his "'magical number'":http://e
 n.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven\,_Plus_or_Minus_Two of ideas
 \, which I will outline in my presentation.  I'll be intrigued to know wha
 t an informed audience makes of them.\n\n*About the speaker*\n\nJohn Naugh
 ton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open Uni
 versity\, a Fellow of Wolfson\, the _Observer_'s "Internet columnist":http
 ://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/networker\, Academic Adviser to th
 e Arcadia Project and an "inveterate blogger":http://memex.naughtons.org.\
 n\nPlease confirm your intent to attend to the Arcadia Administrator\, Mic
 helle Heydon: mh569@cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Wolfson College (note change of venue from OCR)
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