[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:51:46PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> I'm more ignorant than you ... not dumber :)

It's a different world. For example, I can become educated in a matter
of minutes using the Wikipedia on far more subjects than I could 10 years
ago when I had to use a CD-ROM encylopedia. Or when I was in high school
(1960's) where I had to go to a library and use an outdated encylopedia
or spend hours looking up other books.

We could argue for days on how inacurate the Wikipedia is, but I doubt that
it's much less accurate than the average public library was in 1968.

If one wants to ignore the Wikipedia and use the web in general, you
can even learn more but IMHO the chance of being presented with inaccurate
articles is much higher. 

Good research skills are needed now more than ever. 

Disclaimer: my wife is a teaching librarian. 

Geoff.


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