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Re: netLibrary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Greenwood L)
Thu Mar 16 20:07:53 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:21:20 -0500
From: Larry Greenwood L <greenwoo@WARP6.CS.MISU.NODAK.EDU>
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Speaking of human progress, has anyone read the article in the April 2000
issue of Wired by Bill Joy titled "Why the future does not need us?" It
is a provocative article that may make you want to burn books and erase
all traces of science and human progress.
Larry Greenwood
Library Director
Gordon B. Olson Library
Minot State University
500 University Ave NW
Minot, North Dakota 58707
greenwoo@misu.nodak.edu
office (701)858-3855
home (701)838-0579
fax (701)858-3581
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ian Winship wrote:
> Millard Johnson wrote:
>
> > Most librarians "love" books. Even so, we should see them for what
> > they have become -- the bottle neck in the communication cycle.
> > They are limiting availability, driving up costs, and slowing down human
> progress.
>
> Slowing down human progress?????
> Discuss!
>
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> Ian Winship
> Information Services, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
> City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
>
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> e-mail: ian.winship@unn.ac.uk
> phone: 0191 227 4150 fax: 0191 227 4563
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