at my fingertips
Here are some things that are withing my grasp:
- statistics on the reading habits of UK citizens. The number 2 book they don't finish is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- a bottle of Odwalla oj.
- hundreds of songs saved on my hard drive. and hundreds of pictures.
- 1.68 million potentially-relevant documents about "writing center privacy."
- the street addresses for five Target stores within five miles or so.
- the ability to register for a class in the spring, eliminate holds on my record, ask the instructor a question about a potential scheduling conflict.
I'm sitting at Caribou Coffee on a day off, part of my holiday break between semester. I'm rarely struck at the amount of information that is within grasp: I've grown--like most other people, I think--quite accustomed to the ease of access. But ten, or even five, years ago a lot of this information would've required a substantial amount more work. Fifty years ago (maybe a bit more?) even the bottle of orange juice would've been harder to access in the middle of winter in the Rockies.
I'm not sure how I feel about the ease of access. Like my friend Aaron and I were saying last night, information is abundant, but knowledge is still relatively scarce.
- statistics on the reading habits of UK citizens. The number 2 book they don't finish is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- a bottle of Odwalla oj.
- hundreds of songs saved on my hard drive. and hundreds of pictures.
- 1.68 million potentially-relevant documents about "writing center privacy."
- the street addresses for five Target stores within five miles or so.
- the ability to register for a class in the spring, eliminate holds on my record, ask the instructor a question about a potential scheduling conflict.
I'm sitting at Caribou Coffee on a day off, part of my holiday break between semester. I'm rarely struck at the amount of information that is within grasp: I've grown--like most other people, I think--quite accustomed to the ease of access. But ten, or even five, years ago a lot of this information would've required a substantial amount more work. Fifty years ago (maybe a bit more?) even the bottle of orange juice would've been harder to access in the middle of winter in the Rockies.
I'm not sure how I feel about the ease of access. Like my friend Aaron and I were saying last night, information is abundant, but knowledge is still relatively scarce.
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Yeah, that's job security for me.