Internet Learning Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2015 | Page 84

Internet Learning Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 – Spring 2015
completely irrelevant information/services that are available. The battle for the creation of
interesting new products will no longer be focused on the products being new, but rather on
them being interesting. This means that the relevant difference between information and
knowledge (useful information) is on making sure that its usefulness is so clear and
publicized that the product will become interesting. Such an alteration of what is relevant
about a product will make scientific/technological research increasingly less relevant, and
social/psychological/marketing research increasingly more relevant; it also makes a lot of
the structure we are using to promote production, such as patents, increasingly more focused
on marketing technologies and increasingly less so on technological developments.
Languages are the representation of a joint cultural past, bridges to the construction
of a joint future, and barriers to the construction of other joint futures. Languages can indeed
both unite and divide people. Another well-known capacity of languages is the building of
cultural commerce landscapes that can represent extremely large amounts of money. The
more widespread a language, the larger the market of the culture having such language can
access. Of course, that translation is always possible, but the existence of a common
language helps the building of a common culture. The combined existence of a joint
language and culture is very useful in the construction of a joint market. This must be
understood as a relevant political issue (Heller, 1991 & 1995).
CONCLUSION
The analysis of the global economical fluxes is both multi-science and multitechnology,
and young people understand that it is the managing of that monetary flux that is
the essence of what presently constitutes power. Power is no longer in the military as it
occurred until the 60s-70s of the previous century, and it is starting to no longer be associated
to knowledge about the legal system, but it is rather starting to become associated to the
knowledge about the management of economical fluxes. The EU is a paradigmatic example
of this shift. Fraternity in Europe can only endure if the production capacity becomes more
homogeneous across the EU, otherwise it will not occur. The people of the poor countries
cannot live better than the people of the richer countries using the richer countries’ money,
nor can they accept to live in worst conditions than in the richer countries forever.
The universities that by lack of scale and/or money cannot produce the best art,
science, or technology in the world have the moral duty of trying to show those high
achievements of humanity to their students. The online universities are especially well
equipped to be that window to world-class quality and achievement that can be open by
combining multi-science and multi-technology teaching (Morin, 2008), and at a considerable
lower cost than face-to-face universities; even more so if you are a student not living in the
richer countries of the world, where one typically finds the top-level face-to-face universities.
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