Gregorian:

1
Gregorian Technology, Scholarship, and the
Humanities

• 90 - 95 of info is unavailable.
• Why is that?
• What is the difference between knowledge and
  information?
• John Naisbit the world is wallowing in detail,
  drowning in information, but is starved for
  knowledge

2
Gregorian (cont. 1)

• What is the main problem with Universities (and
  modern education really) that Gregorian
  describes?
• What is the problem of specialization?
• Are there some things that are fundamental to all
  students? If so what are they?

3
Gregorian (cont. 2)

• Does he want us to end specialization?
• Wants university students to be versed in
  analysis and synthesis.
• IT gives us the ability to organize ourselves
  into specialized comunities. McLuhan was
  mistaken. We are not a global community.
• IT can lead to priesthoods.

4
Gregorian (cont. 3)

• T.S. Eliot described Dantes Inferno (Hell) as a
  place where nothing connects with nothing.
• The relevant organizational structure must
  change to adapt to the new technology. Until that
  happens, the real revolution of technology in
  higher education will not have occurred. (pg.
  603)