It's a few weeks old, but takeCRLF the fifteen minutes or so it takes to read this six page article. Ignore the title: it's mostly the story ofCRLF Marcus, the 15 year old who became a legal expert on AskMe.Com. Reflect: what does this sayCRLF about how the internet changes our perception of education? Of credentials. Consider: "By its nature,CRLF the Internet undermined anyone whose status depended on a privileged access to information. TheCRLF Internet was merely using Marcus to tell us something about ourselves: we doubted the value of formalCRLF training. A general collapse in the importance of formal training was a symptom of post-Internet life;CRLF knowledge, like the clothing that went with it, was being informalized." By Michael Lewis, the NewCRLF York Times, July 15, 2001.
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