Wizard Marks said: > WM: It would take a very long replay to answer this. Suffice it to say > that the notion that the internet can serve all one's information needs > is too simplistic for words.
Wizard - Could you please send the long answer? I'd like to hear why the internet can't provide all information needs. I can think of only one short answer to this - that not all books and other materials have been put into electronic form. I hope and expect that almost all writing will be in a database in twenty years or so. At that point libraries will be obsolete, except perhaps to provide internet access to the destitute. Maybe libraries should start phasing out their soon-to-be-obsolete functions now, instead of constantly looking for more tax money and new facilities. I expect that you disagree with this, Wizard. If so, could you explain the function of libraries in the electronic age? Thanks Mark Anderson Bancroft _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
