Golden Swamp Defined

Do you think the Internet is a creepy place?

That idea is a main cause of the failure of learning in the digital age.
The freshest, most authentic knowledge is now on the Internet.
Schools have not embraced the global virtual knowledge ecology.

The established education industry has instead spent
the past decade filtering Internet learning out of our kids' lives.

GOLDEN SWAMP WARBLER
This pretty little fellow's name is the only known use of the golden swamp term other than Huygens' and the name of this website. (Photo by Gerhard Hoffman)

The Internet is the Golden Swamp!
Here's why:

The definition as a "swamp" applies because the open Internet contains a lot of junk that mingles with the content that is not junk. There are creepy things as well as useful ones.

This swampiness causes unlimited liberty for the bits and bytes representing all kinds of useful content and the junk to mingle and flow. The swamp contains centillions of loose pieces of e-commerce, blogs, pornography, abandoned websites, search engines, art offerings, government information, propaganda, email messages and more. Every single one of the bits of human meaning represented digitally is transmitted by being further minimalized by being broken into multiple packets that zoom around like unschooled baby minnows, seeking their individual destinations through the most available routes of the moment on the grand network.

Yet order emerges from this chaos. That is why the open Internet is golden. The order emerges not inspite of the swampy chaos, but because of that chaos — because of the complexity. Complexity theory in recent years has given us the realization that everything meaningful seems to have emerged from nodes to network to function.

GoldenSwamp.com is dedicated to explaining and showcasing one particular golden emergence: that of an open content network of what is known by humankind available in common to each person on earth.

The blogging I do on GoldenSwamp.com also is a way of advocating that the education establishment embrace the open Internet rather than largely dismissing it as they have done up to now. The Ogre page elborates on this problem — which must be eliminated for the sake of the new generations of children! That page is the text of one of the ideas in my new book.

Judy Breck, Swampkeeper

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Golden Swamp Defined

Do you think the Internet is a creepy place? That idea is a main cause of the failure of learning in the digital age. The freshest, most authentic knowledge is now on the Internet. Schools have not embraced the global virtual knowledge ecology.

The established education industry has instead spent the past decade filtering Internet learning out of our kids' lives.

Do you think the Internet is a creepy place?

That idea is a main cause of the failure of learning in the digital age.
The freshest, most authentic knowledge is now on the Internet.
Schools have not embraced the global virtual knowledge ecology.

The established education industry has instead spent
the past decade filtering Internet learning out of our kids' lives.