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Spore http://www.ted.com/speakers/will_wright.html TEDtalk
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'''GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS'''
GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS'''
 
  
http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/By_place
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[http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/By_place C8 wiki page]
  
Google Earth
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Google Earth [http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2134 conservation]
  
 
Manhatta Project TEDtalk http://www.mefeedia.com/news/24366708
 
Manhatta Project TEDtalk http://www.mefeedia.com/news/24366708

Revision as of 04:06, 27 January 2010

These are linked based on January talk


HEROES

Kenneth Burke

Buckminster Fuller

Dymanxian map

Geoscope. In 1962, R. Buckminster Fuller published plans for a, "giant, 200-foot diameter... miniature earth -- the most accurate global representation of our planet ever to be realized." The Geoscope would be a massive 3-D educational environment, using an array of computers and databases to display real-time and historical data on nearly any world situation.

Doug Engelbart inspired by Vannevar Bush's Memex video overview. Engelbart's 1968 Mother of All Demos was years ahead of its time, introducing concepts that would be realized, eventually in the PC and WWW.


KNOWLEDGE WEB

Knowledge Web site (with video overview)

Uber

beta with globe lgn = beta pzwd = slug

beta with search

2.5D demo (IE optimized: click and drag to rotate, scroll mouse to zoom)


DATA VISUALIZATION

Visual Complexity gallery

Worldometers

Gapminder


Science Maps Gallery

Science maps with bursts

Science map large

High School hookup map

Blogosphere 2009 2004

Blogosphere 2004


ARGUMENT MAPS

Global Warming/Copenhagen

Simon B. Shum creates great tools such as Cohere

Robert Horn at Stanford


VIRTUAL REALITY

Virtual College Eight

Second Life

Spore demo video


GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

C8 wiki page

Google Earth conservation

Manhatta Project TEDtalk http://www.mefeedia.com/news/24366708

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=305

See Earth from space right now (or any date)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p


COLLEGE EIGHT WIKI

PLACE http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/By_place

tOPICS http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Special:Categories see also site

map http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages

pOPULARITY http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Special:Popularpages

PEOPLE http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Eco-heroes

ucsc pEOPLE http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Slugs_in_Action

ucsc gREEN ORGS http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/List