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How
Calling Cards are
promoting academic research
By Cory McLeod
If you had to list a few of the early
pioneers of the Internet, it’s unlikely that Lyndon B. Johnson would be
at the top of your list. But in fact it was Lyndon B. Johnson, who said
"we must consider new ways to build a great network for knowledge-not
just a broadcast system, but one that employs every means of sending and
of storing information that the individual can rise." LBJ saw this
network of a means by which academics could share knowledge. If you were
in college in the early 90s, then this is exactly what the Internet was,
a way of connecting universities and academic research.
Although the Internet has done a lot to promote academic research,
making research papers available to a wider audience, the limitations of
the Internet have become apparent and calling cards have become a way of
filling the gaps.
Contrary. to popular opinion, academic research isn’t about reading
books. It’s about dialogue and debate. Successful researchers don’t
spend most of their time in the library, they spend it talking through
academic problems and engaged in critical discourse with people working
in similar areas of research.
More often than not, the only people working in the same field of
research aren’t at the same university. Most of the time they’re in
different continents. That’s what makes international calling cards so
important for the academic world. International calling cards allow
research to debate issues critical to their research, exchange ideas and
thus propel the quality of their research. Emails are good for
exchanging information. But to really engage in a meaningful debate you
need the phone.
Companies like
Phone Cards Plus
offer some of the most competitive rates available on the calling card
market today. If you want to talk to a fellow researcher in the UK, you
can talk for as little as 1.9 cents a minute. International calling
cards are a great way to expand your knowledge base and getting that
competitive edge that is so vital in the academic world today.
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