[Web4lib] Paperless society

[Dan Lester]

Sorry for being two weeks late, and many dollars short (due to
pneumonia), but....one basic point is being missed.

Kahle did NOT say that paper was gone....Reread the first line: "Paper
is no longer the master copy". Of COURSE IT ISN'T. It is one the phone
company computer. The phone book is simply an out of date spinoff.

Not much different from "back in the dark ages" of 40 years ago when
our automated circ system scanned punched cards from the book, sent
the data to campus mainframe, and every morning we picked up a PAPER
list of all that was checked out.

I've read a bushel of replies to this, but haven't seen this point
covered.

dan

Monday, February 11, 2008, 7:29:01 AM, you wrote:

> I had to chuckle at the quote:

>  "'Paper is no longer the master copy; the digital version is,' says
> Brewster Kahle, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, a
> nonprofit digital library. 'Paper has been dealt a complete deathblow. When
> was the last time you saw a telephone book?'"...

> Having used the phone book twice in the last 20 minutes to answer reference
> questions I found it quite humorous.


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The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK, Jr. 
Dan Lester, Boise, ID