Jeffrey C. Long

MusicGrid: Video Collaboration in Action

Reaching out via voice has changed the world, through landlines, cell phones, and now Skype and cousins. What effects will broadband video have? An article on Canada’s MusicGrid project, explores a real-life case study involving hundreds of geographically-distributed students, teachers, and musicians – all collaborating over broadband video networks:



Convergence of Science and Religion On a Sunday morning two years ago, a staff member of THINK flicked on the radio and, by chance, tuned in on a provocative discussion. Dr. Charles H. Townes, the distinguished scientist, was talking with a Bible class. The subject was the relationship of science to religion, and Dr. Townes was urging that scientific and religious thought, far from conflicting, are today finding more and more in common and are destined ultimately to merge.

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