"Now that computer technology has made possible the rapid accessing of large amounts of factual information, people are less likely than ever to think deeply or originally. They feel unable to compete with.much less contribute to.the quantity of information that is now available electronically."
Related:
- samizdat /sahm-iz-daht/ n.
[Russian, literally "self
publishing"] The process of disseminating documentation via
underground channels.
Originally referred to underground duplication and... - samizdat: [Russian, literally "self publishing"] n.
The process of disseminating documentation via underground... - Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information.
As a result, people have become so preoccupied with... - People think they don't have to learn, Because there is so much
information available.
But knowledge is more than possessing information.... - munch vt.
[often confused with mung, q.v.] To
transform information in a serial fashion,
often requiring large amounts of computation. To... - Information Technology permits small companies to look large
and large companies to feel small.
Dr. Benn Konsynski, Emory... - Information that is hard to access is worth less than
none at all... - A thing is far more likely to be like it is now than it was before or will
be in the future,
although this is less likely to be true, if said of... - A box of punchcards could theoretically store 240,000 bytes of information,
and usually stored less than 80,000. Think about...
