Putting Canada in the Vanguard of the Internet Transformation
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
as Clifford Clark Visiting Economist, I left behind at the Department of Finance an essay outlining some proposals as to Canada’s policy priorities for the next decade. Included was the following statement: “Perhaps the most compelling phenomenon of our times is the emergence of the information society – based on microchips and communications – but far transcending those technological underpinnings. Shaping Canada’s role in the information society according to our values, and assuring that we stay at the leading edge, are opportunities of sufficient breadth and potential to define a great national project (Nicholson 1995: 17; italics in original). Much has happened in the intervening years. In 1995, it was still possible to write about the information society yet not associate that idea with the Internet. Netscape, the developer of the first web browser, was just a software start-up in the process of going public. Few people knew what an Internet service provider was. Email was an academic curiosity. Words such as e-commerce did not exist. By 2001, we had gone through the dot-com bubble and its spectacular deflation. Nevertheless, the Internet-user population, which had soared to 300 million worldwide, is still projected to reach roughly a billion users by 2005. More than a trillion dollars of commerce will likely be conducted via the Internet this year. Some commentators nevertheless believe that the collapse of Internet stocks – indeed, the entire implosion of investment in the telecom sector – marked the end of the Internet era. As I argue below, this event marked only the end of the beginning. In fact, the dot-com euphoria and subsequent meltdown were predictable (except for the precise timing), a consequence of the rapid expansion of a revolutionary new technology. History is replete with analogous experience. The drivers of the continuing Internet transformation are ultimately technological, reinforced by demographic and behavioural shifts. These drivers continue to wax, not wane. Combined with the decentralized, innovationfriendly nature of the Internet, they will foment changes in business, government and society we can scarcely begin to imagine.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it