[Air-l] Response to discussion on Wikis

[Martin G. Smith]

Hello Kevin and All

Your observation/reference is timely and appropriate as I have started to have just these discussions with some folks who do not think IT matters. Professor Rosenzweig’s treatise is most apt indeed and in this age of the ‘Bite’ of information, although admitted I sometimes refer to it as ‘Bight’,  I would suggest the following applies to those of us who care:

‘Why Should We Care? Implications for Historians – One 
reason professional historians need to pay attention to 
Wikipedia is because our students do.’

Reference – http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42.#f52 

Regards

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Each day, as we walk the byways and flash along the Highway of Light: 
There are those who are left standing, as the march to flight goes by. 

Some to stop and wonder at the enormous potential at what 
has been created: 

But others who are left, standing in a rut at the side of the road, 
a rut too soon to become an abyss. 

So Then? What to do? 

Have said before, too many times to count, yet shall say again, as often as need be, 
until there is clarity in the air: 

The time has come to put a fence at the top of the cliff, instead of a net at the bottom: 
Thus giving a chance to build a bridge over the abyss. 

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