[WEB4LIB] need technology news not business news

[Dan Lester]

Friday, July 27, 2001, 9:34:44 AM, you wrote:
DB> My frustration continues in that almost all so-called
DB> technology news sources are dominated by business news not any news of new
DB> technologies or how people are using those technologies.  This is even
DB> getting to be the case in the library press. 

This doesn't seem strange at all to me.  A great many new technologies
are developed by corporate research, and they are naturally promoted
by those companies.  Does that make them bad?  Those articles or ads
will certainly tell how they're being used, or how the companies hope
they'll be used.  There are certainly R&D journals galore, plus more
popular things like Popular Science that have all sorts of things
about technologies that might or might not happen "for real", if that
is what you're after.  Heavens, I remember reading things in PopSci
and similar sources as a kid.  They were sure we'd all have
helicopters or flying cars to get to work long before now.....

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, and maybe I'm just not
understanding what you're really after.  But remember that most things
predicted never happen, and most things that happen were never
predicted.

cheers

dan

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