Electronic Information: Deadliest Enemy of Human Knowledge?
Electronic Information: Deadliest Enemy of Human Knowledge?
December 27, 2000 - Galloping advances in information technology
promise to give us instant access to all the world's knowledge. But
how will human memory fare against the rise of the super-machine?
Ivan Briscoe, UNESCO Courier journalist, looks at the connection
between the yawning gaps in general knowledge and information
technology. Is boundless electronic information the deadliest enemy
of human knowledge, he asks in his article which is in WebWorld's
Point of View section.
Read complete article ("When computers chip away at our memories") at
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/briscoe.shtml
