New Year. New Science.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Funny in a thread about the advances in science we are still talking about information delivery in terms of a 15th Century paradigm of the printed word on a page. Particularly in a medium that releases us from that paradigm.

This medium is a useful tool, but it has released me from nothing. Sure, it is handy and has many uses. I look up information every day about Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque composers, and am glad I can, yet I just bought a new book on British batlleships from 1905-1920, and it is full of information not available online at all.

Things on the web can only be trusted as far as the people who put them there can be trusted. I'll keep my books, thank you, and I'll keep buying them.