Communication

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 Mr. Stephenson Interview.

Today, ideas are being spread more rapidly throughout Calgary, and the world. With new communications such as twitter and facebook, people can get around governments controls. For example, people in Iran sent out pictures of what was happening there to the rest of the world via twitter. Also, the news about the Haiti tragedy has travelled very quickly. This has a great effect how people see the world, and inspires them to do something about the bad things happening. Overall, the way information is being rapidly spread around the globe today has a great resemblance of how ideas were spread in the Renaissance.
 * 1. During the Renaissance, we saw how the world views of the people changed because of the spreading and recognition of new ideas. Do you see some of the conditions and developments in Calgary today? Specifically, do we see how the information being sent around the world today resemble how the spread of ideas in the Renaissance change the way people view society? **

The smart board was a new revolution in technology, and it was based in Calgary. It helps schools nowadays, such as ours, the Calgary Science School, and also many other sch ools throughout the city. But, it does not exactly help with 'spreading ideas' very much, it just helps with teaching ideas that had already been spread. Calgary doesn't have very many innovations other than that, though we do use the internet and mail, and technologies that had been invented by other cities. Illuminate is a Calgary made program that helps people present information in a unique way
 * 2. During the Italian Renaissance, we saw the reinvention of the printing press which let more books to be made and traded. Do you see some of the same conditions in Calgary today? Specifically, does Calgary have a new innovation to help the spread of communication? **

In response to wether calgary is a renaissance city the recreation of old ideas to make a renaissance city, Neil Stephenson believes that Calgary has the necessary element to be a renaissance city by recreating old ideas into new ones. Further he thinks that Calgary has recreated old ideas into new ideas and that we would be close to being a renaissance city. Because of his great understanding of technology he understands the great enhancements that have emerged in the past years. he said that "In the last past years our world has shown some great improvements, one of them was the SMART board because it is a mix of the white board and technology." By this he meant that calgary has some of the necessary elements for a renaissance city due to the recreation of old ideas into new ideas and that even today the world is recreating old ideas into new ideas and that new ideas aren't just made from no where.

Well they are because the new technologies today are the computer messaging. For example people used twitter to tell the world about what was happening in there country Iran. The government tried to control this but it got out from the people in the country. So instead of the printing press being the new innovation the new innovation is technology on the computer. Illuminate is another innovation. Illuminate is a Calgary made program that helps people present information in a unique way.
 * 3. During the Renaissance, many people were spreading ideas. They did this with the reinvention of the Printing Press. People were spreading new ideas about the new ways of thinking. Are people in Calgary responding similarly to the way they did in the Renaissance? **

Calgary needs new technologies to make it a renaissance city. Mr. Stevenson believes that we need new technologies such as Illuminate. By this he means we need old technologies formed into new innovations. Specially further he believes that Illuminate is a program that is a new way of making and performing a presentation. It was created in Calgary and now used around the world. He states “Illuminate is a Calgary made program that helps people present information in a unique way” By this he is talking about another Calgary innovation along with the Smart Board. This is also another way to spread ideas in an affective way.
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today we do have conflicts that were once hidden by someone or a group of people and then released to the public but in calgary we do not really have big conflicts. Were those types of conflicts were taking place were in Iran. In Iran the government was controlling the media so nothing got out about the corrupt election but some people used twitter to get the info out. all in all calgary doesn't have these problems but the world does.
 * 4. during the renaissance we saw conflict between the church and the bible. What the bible was saying somethings that the priest were not and people started to believe the bible more and lose faith in the church. is there still conflicts like this in calgary today? **


 * Evy Transcribing Data Paragraph**

In response to the whether Calgary possess the necessary components to spread ideas to make it a Renaissance city, Mr. Stephenson believes that Twitter and other social networking sites play a big part in spreading ideas across Calgary, and the world.

In this sense, he believes that Twitter, Facebook, and other sites help spread ideas very quickly. Groups and tweets can go a long way, and a lot of people may end up reading what you post online. The example he gave was if someone were to organize a protest at the University of Calgary to protect their increase in fees and admission, they could do so very quickly by making a Facebook group and inviting all you’re friends, or tweet something that all your followers will see. Also, the pictures of the war in Iran were being sent around the world via Twitter, and those pictures made it into the media and gave people a sense of what was happening.

He states, “People can use the internet to get past government control.”

By this he/she means that, supporting the example of what happening in Iran, the government blocked the Internet, but they didn’t block Twitter. This way, some people got past the government and posted pictures on Twitter.

In response to whether Calgary possesses the necessary components to spread ideas to make it a Renaissance city, Mr. Stephenson was more optimistic. He felt that Calgary can spread ideas very quickly, and has the necessary components to do so. By this he means that in Calgary today, we have newspapers, magazines, television, and the Internet. This means that we have access to almost anything. He stated that “the technologies today are very helpful in spreading ideas, and we have many innovations that can lead to the communication of ideas.” Moreover, Mr. Stephenson believes that Calgary does have the necessary communicational devices to become a Renaissance city in the aspect of spreading ideas amongst ourselves.