Check this Out (A New Category)

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Once in a while, there is just a notion that seems like an oxymoron and yet, is really pushing us into a new future. Perhaps a dystopian one and perhaps a utopian one. Perhaps just one of those soon to be run of the mill futures (a kind of future I recognized first when I suddenly realized the amazing idea of the video phone -- from  my youthful experience of a World's Fair -- was in my hand and even smaller than they hoped). In any case, NPR did a piece recently on such a notion: A bookless library. 

Check it out here.

Then, ask yourself about the ways this is -- and is not -- related to higher education and what we do. What does it mean to be a great books college in a world where a bookless library is imagineable.

What do you make of this? 

Comments

[Ali]

I think when evaluating any pcaitioiln's past to determine how they will perform in the future, you have to look at not just whether or not they have acknowledged a previous error in judgment; that's a very easy thing for someone to do.You need to assess whether that individual would have learned from their mistakes when presented with the exact same set of circumstances.It's cliche, I know.As an example, telling me that Michael Ignatieff initially supported the war in Iraq does nothing for me now. It's more important, to me, whether or not I believe he'd support a similar war in the future. I don't think he would.I definitely do not get the same feeling from Mr. Harper.As for Mr. Rae repeating the mistakes of his time as Premier ... some argue they weren't mistakes, some argue he has expressed regret. I don't know...

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