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An ancient Athenian’s advice to President-Elect Obama
In his latest book, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens, Josiah Ober, a professor in Classics and Political Science, demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices still hold for us today.
Here Prof. Ober offers some thoughts about how Barack Obama might benefit from re-visiting the tenets of Athenian democracy as he begins his presidency.
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Saving Worlds: Preserving the Digital and Virtual.
Henry Lowood, co-director of the Humanities Laboratory and a library curator is overseeing a two-year grant to the Stanford libraries for a project called Preserving Virtual Worlds.
“If we don't make an effort to preserve this material now,” Lowood says, “historians, writers, students and others will have no idea 100 years from now how digital cultures evolved.”