Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Week 12: Staying Current




If one does not have an awareness of technology---the Internet, computers and their software, and the myriad personal electronics such as cell phones--- one probably has just left from the island with Robinson Crusoe. Knowing how to use that technology is another matter. As a well known English playwright once had Hamlet say, "There's the rub."
I, for instance, have recently run into the term "cloud computing." The "cloud" is the Internet; the "computing" part seems to mean using the Internet to develop and use computer technology. The authors of articles that I have read about it seem to be be entranced with the idea. The "normal" library patron has probably not heard of it...used it possibly but still not heard of the term. When a senior citizen tells you that Interlibrary Loans take too long and she'll go on Amazon and order the book, you come to realize that people will find ways to use whatever technology if the desire is there.
Nicholas Carr made waves with his article in the July/August 2008 issue of The Atlantic entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." His premise is that the Internet has caused mankind to lose some of its ability to concentrate and, therefore, to think. Interesting idea! Yet, I seem to remember that something of the same was said about television. I do wonder if the medieval monks had something of the same idea about that press that Gutenberg created?
The following list is from Daily Cup of Tech:
I have not visited them all nor have an inclination to do so, but I'm like my senior lady---if I find a need to, I shall.
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