Comments on: Is Google ‘white bread for young minds’?

By: Some links for light reading (15/1/08) | Max Design

Some links for light reading (15/1/08) | Max Design — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:28:27 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:50:50 +0000

I was at Tara recent inaugural lecture at the University of Brighton and taped the lecture (6.5 MB WMA file). You can find the link at http://nomadx.org/content/view/1810/63/

Regards
Michael

By: Kailash

Kailash — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:02:04 +0000

Nice post.

I should point out that the problem of recognising what’s good and what’s not is an old one. As a person who used to make a living doing research (in the pre-google era) – I recall spending countless frustrating hours reading worthless research papers. The difference now is that I don’t have to go the library; the papers are accessible from my desktop. However, the process of sorting the grain from the chaff is the same now as it was then – read from diverse sources and, above all, think for yourself. Easy access to search engines makes it harder, but doesn’t absolve us from the responsibility.

Kailash