« In the US, young adults are the heaviest users of libraries | Main | Stunning "MIT Lecture Browser" indexes recordings using speech to text conversion »

Comments

Re item 2, I can't help but recall the often quoted Kurt Vonnegut aphorism: “We are here on Earth to fart around...” I am pleased to see hype abate in any case, but the implicit utilitarian value hierarchy in learning v. distraction might be worth a second look, especially in light of the recent post suggesting that the categorisation of information may be on the way out.

The comments to this entry are closed.