Keeping Time
A Digital Commonplace Book
Monday, April 18, 2011
About the So-Called Information Age
Robert Darnton’s
“
5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’
” (
The Chronicle
):
"The book is dead."
"We have entered the information age."
"All information is now available online."
"Libraries are obsolete."
[Another myth is challenged here: “
Libraries never were warehouses of books.
”]
"The future is digital."
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