It was just announced that the
Britannica (which was started in 1768), will cease printing traditional paper encyclopedias. In another sign that the printed page is being extinguished as a
profit making enterprise, Britannica said they would concentrate on selling
their data bases to others, and on “apps” for iPads and other tablet computers.
1.
Tablets are
racing into the classrooms of America
in lieu of books
2.
Universities are
switching from printed books to electronic books in their libraries.
Example : the new library in the “about to be built” new facility
for the University of South Carolina
Moore School of Business is supposed to be radically different from the
existing one. The new one will have
nearly all electronic books instead of paper ones (the library looks like a
small room on the blueprints I saw)
Distributed
Processing: this is an old term, that is relevant
again. As the books go electronic, where
a student reads them won’t matter as it did in the past. So a library table and chair is no longer
essential. The work (or in this case the information) is distributed to the
person, the person doesn’t go to the information location.
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