Monday, April 18, 2011

About the So-Called Information Age

Robert Darnton’s 5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’” (The Chronicle):

  1. "The book is dead." 
  2. "We have entered the information age."
  3. "All information is now available online."
  4. "Libraries are obsolete." [Another myth is challenged here: “Libraries never were warehouses of books.”]
  5. "The future is digital."