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[ NNSquad ] BBC: Why didn't Harry Potter just use Google?
Why didn't Harry Potter just use Google?
http://j.mp/A3I5pT (BBC)
"As so often, however, our sense of living in an age which is
particularly vulnerable to being overwhelmed by too much
information turns out to be misplaced. Even before the invention
of the printing press - when the distribution of information
depended upon teams of scribes working with pen and ink in
monastery libraries - the fear of too much to know, too much
material too widely and swiftly disseminated, was already
threatening to overwhelm our orderly sense of understanding."
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My sense is that the question isn't really what do we want to forget
per se, but rather what do we find useful, important, and
entertaining, both as individuals and as societies. Information that
seems unimportant today may turn out to be very useful tomorrow in
light of changed circumstances and evolving technologies. So this does
seem to be much more a question of responsibly organizing and
prioritizing knowledge (obviously in concert with appropriate privacy
principles) on both micro and macro levels, rather than forgetting it.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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