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Upcoming Seminars

2nd Annual Ethical Literacy® Conference
June 19-20, 2008
Breakwater Marketplace, Rockland, Maine
Facilitator: Various

Ethics & Parenting Symposium
September 23, 2008
St. Louis, MO
Facilitator: Rushworth Kidder

Complete 2008 Schedule

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Ethics Newsline® Commentary:

The YouTube Illusion

by Rushworth M. Kidder
May 5, 2008

PALO ALTO, California
At a conference here in Silicon Valley last weekend, I heard two predictions that fell together for me like tumblers in a lock. The first came from Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who pointed out that “only about 2 percent of the world’s data is digitized.” In other words, only a tiny fraction of our knowledge is currently available for use on computers, DVDs, or iPods. He expects that number to double in the next four years — a period during which, he says, there will be “more data created than in the history of the planet.”

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