It’s a great medium
It’s a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames. Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll
Call me a troglodyte;
Call me a troglodyte; I’d rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book. Clifford Stoll
Here are my strong
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. Clifford Stoll
No computer network with
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work. Clifford Stoll
It’s easier to apologize
It’s easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place. Clifford Stoll
Computers in classrooms are
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. Clifford Stoll
Rather than bringing me
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. Clifford Stoll
We’ll soon buy books
We’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. Clifford Stoll
I claim that this
I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders…Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They’ll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at … Read more
What’s society going to
What’s society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together? Clifford Stoll