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New Utter Bull By-products, piled higher and deeper.
"Of the billions of pages on the vaunted Internet, how many are accurate and how many contain false information? Is library usage up or down?"

How many pages of books are accurate and how many contain false information? The ratio is probably quite similar, but on the Internet it is easy to find other sources to confirm or deny - and there's more information available on the sources than a paragraph of exaggerations on the back of the dust jacket.

Libraries are revamping themselves to encompass this wider world where books don't need to be on the shelf, and can even be printed to order.

" . . nor suffer the catastrophe of serendipitously discovering something whilst researching something else."

Absolute Bullshit! Bullshit piled to a hundred orders of magnitude.

Have you ever even used the Internet (except to read Communist propaganda)?

When researching a particular food topic, I'm often distracted into a dozen distantly related or even unrelated subjects - and I can get to them in seconds. Things like the Crimean War, a lady pirate who once ruled the China Seas and defeated the Portuguese and the British, makeshift artillery used by the Boers in South Africa, Colossal Squid, tunnels under the Mexican pyramids . . the list goes on forever. The Internet is the CAPITOL of serendipity.

"$DEITY forbid, actually have to interact with another human being."

Have you ever heard of email? Probably not because it involves interaction with other human beings. It is fabulous for scheduling visits, organizing parties, introducing yourself to people you might not otherwise have an opportunity to contact. It even works if the other person isn't there to answer the phone right now. I use email to interact with other human beings every day (I'm not a Social Media person - I want direct private contact). Physical contacts are arranged much more easily this way.

"We'll never learn anything we don't specifically want to learn."

Well, apparently that does apply to you - your world does seem a bit narrow. Do not extrapolate that to other people.
New There's serendipity and then there's serendipity.
Search engines narrow your information search in ways that eliminate discovery. Here's an example. I'm a grad student in a university library. I'm struggling with a particular problem in algebraic topology, so I decide to take a break and get up to walk around a bit. I go down a floor and am just walking through the racks of books and periodicals when the title of a journal catches my eye. I take it off the shelf and sit down to read a few pages and discover that research is being conducted into ancient canal building in the US desert Southwest. Now, I'm sure that if I googled "algebraic topology" eventually a link about Native American canal building in the desert Southwest would show up, right?
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New There's grad students...
... and then there's the other 95%* of the population that doesn't have such "serendipitous" access to a university library. The internet is the great democratization of information that used to be the province of the elite. I'm astounded that you don't understand this.

I grew up in the age of World Books, and I went to a university. There's no comparison to the availability of information now. Go sell that disingenuous BS somewhere else. :-)

* 20.5 million university students out of 321 million, United States only.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
     "Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy." - (Ashton) - (28)
         Accelerating inequality has always been the only possible "contribution" of computer technology. - (mmoffitt) - (25)
             Yeah, but being wrong is kind of a hobby for you, right? - (pwhysall) - (19)
                 In what way has private use of IT made life better? - (mmoffitt) - (18)
                     Ever read a 100-page legal "brief"? - (drook)
                     I don't even know what "private IT" means. -NT - (malraux)
                     Bull By-products! - (Andrew Grygus) - (11)
                         Questions. - (mmoffitt) - (10)
                             So you'd have the printing press controlled as well -NT - (crazy)
                             Curmudgeon much? - (malraux)
                             Utter Bull By-products, piled higher and deeper. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                                 There's serendipity and then there's serendipity. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                                     There's grad students... - (malraux)
                             Re: Questions. - (Ashton) - (4)
                                 Yes, I was ambiguous and overstated. - (mmoffitt) - (3)
                                     It wouldn't have made any difference - (pwhysall) - (2)
                                         The OP would be a good start. And of vastly greater consequence ... - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                                             Thankfully the events in Manc have not touched me, mine or anyone in my extended circle - (pwhysall)
                     If your own life were made worse by being on here, then you wouldn't be. - (CRConrad) - (3)
                         "Net negative" != "Entirely negative". HTH. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                             If it were net negative you wouldn't be here. -NT - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                 That doesn't follow at all. - (mmoffitt)
             Please define the term - (crazy) - (4)
                 Non-governmental, Non-healthcare, Non-university, etc. - (mmoffitt) - (3)
                     Oh, you mean corporate use - (drook) - (2)
                         Yeah, I assumed as much but wanted to be sure - (crazy) - (1)
                             Demur. - (Ashton)
         Link to actual podcast of that episode: - (CRConrad) - (1)
             Thanks for completing my - (Ashton)

Thothe boilth you have on your fathe are jutht in-THANE!
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