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08/29/2005 Archived Entry: "New Semester"

New Semester
In honor of the new semester, rant #456 Part IV:
From Kevin Kelly's essay in Wired, "We are the Web":

The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the stupendous. Today, at any Net terminal, you can get: an amazing variety of music and video, an evolving encyclopedia, weather forecasts, help wanted ads, satellite images of anyplace on Earth, up-to-the-minute news from around the globe, tax forms, TV guides, road maps with driving directions, real-time stock quotes, telephone numbers, real estate listings with virtual walk-throughs, pictures of just about anything, sports scores, places to buy almost anything, records of political contributions, library catalogs, appliance manuals, live traffic reports, archives to major newspapers - all wrapped up in an interactive index that really works.

From the first day syllabus of any given composition course in these United States:

In this course, you will write a paper in which you support a well-crafted thesis.

We ain't come a long way yet, baby.

Posted by joanna @ 08/30/2005 07:00 AM EST