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I’ve allowed my notes from Darin Barney’s lecture gather digital dust for over a month. His lecture was the inaugural event to the Conference on Education, Culture and the Knowledge Economy at CLIP on June 6th, 2008.

Unlike other lectures at the Centre, D.Barney*’s was focused on technology rather than intellectual property. In all honesty, it was difficult for me to make heads or tails of the lecture because I didn’t attend it with the proper mental framework. D.Barney spoke much about the importance of technological development as part of the development of our national identity and our nation itself. I wondered, though, whether the same spin could be put on something else to the same effect (like visual art or music).

Perhaps what was most interesting was D.Barney’s presentation of the Historica Minutes as an example of ads not merely for general public pedagogy, but particularly for science and technology. Although the list of the Historica Minutes on Wikipedia shows that there were showcases of other aspects of Canadian history, it certainly does seem that innovation was featured in a majority of the Minutes.

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*Referred to as “D.Barney” instead of simply “Barney” because I have for too long been using “Barney” to reference Matthew Barney.

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