Nice  article, thanks for posting it.  Vannevar Bush's As We May Think, is required reading in all my courses.   In it, back in 1945, Bush describes a future that has a device (he called it the Memex) attached to "the record".   The creation of computers, the Internet, mice, monitors, scanners, etc.  many trace back to this.  Like Emerson's "The American Scholar", this paper called for a new relationship between us, and our knowledge. 

When I reflect back on my 30 plus years supporting technology in education I find myself often asking the questions Bush posed.  One of the more profound ones it, "of what lasting benefit has been man's use of science and of the new instruments which his research has brought into existence? "  It is a question that usually starts a raucous multi-day discussion in class.   

Mr. James B. Greenberg 

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Milne Library 

SUNY College at Oneonta 

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