[MATHEDCC] technology

Dr. Frank Pecchioni (fpecchio@pop.jcc.uky.edu)
Mon, 18 May 1998 13:31:34 -0400

Another two cents (and you didn't have to carry pop bottles to the store).

A friend of mine, a historian, once told me that the printing press caused
some anxiety in late medieval academic circles. "The end of scholarship -
no one will bother to memorize texts anymore."

We have to decide what purpose the old technology served (familiarity with
numbers, access to information, . . .) and work to serve that purpose with
the new technology.

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