papasan5's Profile

They learn from experience—the oldest and earliest type of learning—and they learn from people who know more than they do. The second kind of learning comes from either personal contact with living people—teachers, gurus, etc.—or through interaction with the human record, that vast assemblage of texts, images, and symbolic representations that have come to us from the past and is being added to in the present. It is this latter way of learning that is under threat in the realm of digital resources.

I have attempted
to retire from directing films in the alternative universe that is
the Wikipedia a number of times, but somebody always overrules me.
Every time my Wikipedia entry is corrected, within a day I'm turned
into a film director again.

For instance, most of the technical or scientific information that
is in the Wikipedia was already on the Web before the Wikipedia was
started. You could always use Google or other search services to
find information about items that are now wikified.