Whereas immediate, personal contact helped foster a kind of honesty, Socrates argued that strings of words could be manipulated, particularly when disseminated to a mass market.
The app revolution, which goes well beyond the Apple story, is creating an environment where products, services and ideas can be disseminated to a large audience incredibly quickly.
The authorities in Pyongyang allowed in about 130 foreign journalists, including three from The Washington Post, to cover the event, apparently wanting to make sure their message was disseminated to a wide audience.
"The collection of information on people's free-speech actions is being entered into unregulated databases, a vast storehouse of information widely disseminated to a range of law-enforcement and, apparently, private entities," she said.
Many scientists, economists and lawyers believe the act distorts the mission of universities, diverting them from the pursuit of basic knowledge, which is freely disseminated, to a focused search for results that have practical and industrial purposes.
Second, information usually only needs to be disseminated to a limited subset of peers, thus reducing communication costs.
All science results will aim to be published and the results disseminated to a wider audience through the expedition's educational arm reaching out to schools worldwide.
Finally, this information is disseminated to a wide audience, giving rise to issues such as data quality, information pedigree, source reliability, information security, personal privacy, and information value.
The rationale for the former was that they could be disseminated to a wider audience than that which could see a live performance.
With audio more searchable in nature through both screen and voice, it prolongs the shelf life of this content, allows it to be disseminated to a wider audience and makes it more evergreen, giving new life to these content creators.
