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		<title>The End of the Textbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End of March 2008 What would be the situation of a $5 billion a year industry that had a product that hadn’t substantially changed for decades, a product that over that same span had been increasing in price at twice the rate of inflation, and operated in a market where they could be almost completely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=10</link>
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		<title>The End of the University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Middle of March 2008 When Plato founded the Academy in 385 B.C., he had no idea that the concept of the university would permeate the civilized world. Until the nineteenth century universities were religious-based European institutions that catered only to the elite, and taught a narrow range of disciplines ill-suited to people who might have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=9</link>
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		<title>My So-Called Cyber-Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End of February 2008 It’s a familiar lament to any parent of a modern teenager: they are so multiply connected to electronic inputs that the real world slips away and might become irrelevant. If you tell a fifteen year old that when they were eight there were no iPods and when they were born there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=8</link>
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		<title>The Wonderful World of Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Middle of February 2008 To 99% of the population, Wikipedia has become wallpaper, a free source of information so useful and ubiquitous that it’s uninteresting. To academicians, however, the idea of an encyclopedia that anyone can edit is anathema. It sounds like a recipe for misinformation and opinion dressed as facts. They worry about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=7</link>
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		<title>Scientific Computing for the Masses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End of January 2008 The temple of scientific computing has been opened to unwashed heathens. Science has always pushed the envelope of computation and the state of the art of computers. Until a decade ago, supercomputers built by IBM and Hitachi and Cray duked it out to claim the title of fastest calculator; their speeds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=6</link>
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		<title>Getting Used to Exponential Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Middle of January 2008 We’re captives of linear thinking because time flows like a river and our lives play out linearly. The closest most of us get to an appreciation of non-linear growth is the wonder of compound interest. Exponential change is so dramatic intuition fails us. We smile at the story of the precocious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://letterfromcyberia.com/?p=5</link>
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