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We can't really keep track of the rate at which we are discovering more... [The] information release [is] at a bursting rate now, I'm speaking now in relationship to my own life.
One life in the extraordinary numbers of lives there must have been on board of our planet. That the information is multiplying at that rate during just one lifetime indicates that something is going on here right now that is utterly unprecedented." - Inventor, Architect, Engineer, Mathematician, Poet and Cosmologist Buckminster Fuller in Big Picture Thinking
Next contest in fall 2008.
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Latest news:
April 8, 2008:Our team won 2nd place and $7,000 in the Purdue University Burton Morgan business plan competition.
March 1, 2008:
Our team will be representing Purdue University at the national Idea to Product social entrepreneurship competition at Georgia Tech. The Journal and Courier published a story. (More media coverage).
January 24, 2008:120 people competed on the 23rd - 140% growth from the first contest. The Purdue Exponent published a story about the contest and so did the Purdue OWL. (More media coverage).
January 14, 2008:Purdue University News Service published a press release about the contest. (More media coverage).
January 4, 2008:
The Purdue University College of Technology will co-sponsor the contest by contributing $300 for cash prizes.
December 24, 2007:The West Lafayette public library will co-sponsor the contest by contributing $200 for cash prizes.
December 20, 2007:
All College of Liberal Arts students will hear of the contest in an email thanks to Kathy Harmon of the College of Liberal Arts Honors Program
November 29, 2007:
Purdue University Libraries will provide food for 200+ people for the next contest.
November 2, 2007:
The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship will co-sponsor the contest by contributing $200 for cash prizes and questions related to citizenship.
October 3, 2007:
Times-Mail of Lawrence County Indiana has published an article about the contest as well as a mini-contest using a few questions from the original available on their website. (More media coverage).
September 3, 2007:
Purdue University Online Writing Lab has published an interview with Daryl Lim - the winner of the contest - as the featured story in their OWL News publication. (More media coverage).
August 30, 2007:
The Purdue Exponent has published an article about the contest. (More media coverage).
August 29, 2007:
Check out the lucky winners.
The Journal & Courier of Lafayette has published an article about the contest. (More media coverage).
August 24, 2007:
WBAA public radio has played a public service announcement about the contest. (More media coverage).
News: Our team won 2nd place and $7,000 in the Purdue University Burton Morgan center business plan competition. We would like to thank those in the Purdue University Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and the sponsors for the opportunity.
Think you're smart? Prove it.
This Internet skills contest is a high speed battle of minds to find information online.
Free contest open to everyone – students, faculty and community. Test your Internet skills and cognitive agility. Prove your prowess.
You'll have 30 minutes to answer 50 questions using the Internet. It is open to everyone – students, faculty and community.
The Internet is a cognitive prosthetic. Can you use it to amplify the power of your mind?
After the contest we discuss the future of technology, society, the Internet, and the human species. Change is accelerating increasingly. How will you thrive?
This contest will scale internationally. Be the first to experience this growing phenomenon.