THE WELCH COMPANY
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:42:04 -0800

03 00050 61 00020101



To:     unrev-II@onelist.com

Subject:   Text Aids Learning
Intellectual Property Rights in a Knowledge-Based Economy

Dear Peter and Colloquium Contributors,

Thanks for the tip explaining the pending video conference on Intellectual property rights, reported in your letter today.

Live audio and video streams are not effective learning methods. A more useful source of intellectual capital is the text of what is said and presented, because text can be quickly integrated by linking into other information streams for growing new knowledge.

If connections cannot be integrated quickly, the chance of overlooking critical ew ideas is about 99.99% based on cognitive differences between literacy and orality reviewed on November 8, 1999, as noted by Kissinger in his book Diplomacy.

At most, all one can derive from live feeds is impressions of something interesting that then needs a lot of work to capture the record and begin connecting it to test alignment. Less than 1% of people have time to do this, and fewer still have good tools for making these connections. This is not a criticism of you, since everyone these days is enamored by video this and audio mining that. Unless you are selling a cake or a car, emotional entertainment, which dominates oral presentations is not helpful.

If the text is available, can you let us know please.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY



Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net