Gorman and the missing Good via info NeoGnostic
Many-to-Many points to one of two new Michael Gorman postings: Siren Song of the Internet contains a curious omission and a basic misunderstanding. The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the nature of e-books. This statement does not go far enough. Read Gorman and you cannot help but agree with some of the more obvious statements that he makes..."the Internet in particular and the digital resources available to us in general are ineluctable forces that are shaping our lives, in many ways for the better" or "we must exercise judgment, use digital resources intelligently, and import into the digital world the values that have pervaded scholarship in Western societies for many centuries" You are lulled into a false sense of...