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Thursday 20 January 2011

Blast from the Past Link Day

marco:

Shawn Blanc’s Blast from the Past Link Day is a great idea. Here are some of my favorite past posts…

I dig this meme!

Shoveling back into the AZ* galactic hovel, here are a few of my blasts from the past:

Some gems from others far more gifted than me in composing words:

(Source: marco)

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Tuesday 29 December 2009

I think there will always be a gulf between the haves and have-nots, so far as technology is concerned. Such a gulf even exists between automobiles. Most people can afford to buy an automobile, but there is a big difference between a Mercedes-Benz and a Saturn. But even when the problem of the access to technology is solved so that anyone who wishes can have access to technology, there still remains a problem. For example, just about anyone has access to a public library (at least in America). In that library we find the greatest, most profound, most illuminating literature that human beings have so far produced. Do most people read these books? Have you read Cervantes? Have you read the sonnets of Shakespeare? Have you read Hagel or Nietzsche? Their books are in the library, you have access to them, why have you not familiarized yourself with this literature? (Even if you have, I think you will agree that most people have not. Why?) Neil Postman

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