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Stephen Downes

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It starts out as just more wailing and gnashing of teeth at the death of text so characteristic of Britannica, but by the end it gets pretty interesting. "For some 6,000 years, the human mind was unable to devise a superior system for holding and transmitting data. By the middle of this century, however, software developers and engineers will have remedied that situation. So the greatest danger to the written word is not the image; it is the so-called 'Information Age' itself." Oh, but by the end, we're back to the wailing. But it was a nice ride in between.

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