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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Think online information will replace paper anytime soon?

Ah, but they don't take into account those who either are not good with computers or just plain old prefer books. Check out this Newsweek article:

A Tangled Info Web
Who made the decision that everyone who is not computer-literate--very computer-literate, in the ease of our new library--could be left in the cold? Who is pretending that men and women from low-income neighborhoods, schooled without computers and without computers at home, can use this library? And how many decades will pass before everyone who graduated from pre-computer colleges is dead, and until inner-city and rural public schools have computers in sufficient numbers to teach all their children how to use them? Indeed, precious few minority faces are to be seen at the computer stations in our fancy new library.



--Via Blake at LISNews

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