Am 01.12.2010 10:45, schrieb Weinheimer Jim:
> ...
> it seems to me that as people find Google and its offspring easier and
> easier to use while they find better and better materials, they will
> ask us for help less and less.
Yes. We've got universal, unified, globalized habits of dealing with
questions, everybody is expert in it, and it is now tightly woven
into the fabric of everyday life worldwide. We've gotten used to it
like tap water, electricity and gasoline.
If only
a) it weren't like putting all eggs (globally!) in one basket
b) there were something to fall back on in case of failure.
It might make feeble minds feel uneasy.
What, indeed, might happen in the case of Google going down for a
month, a week, a day? No serious worry though, for indeed it must be
utterly unlikely that something should fail that's been up and running
for 12 years straight, must it not? This is not to say libraries might
be a backup then. Certainly not, although there can not be a global
library blackout. Google is a new and quite different category, a
new phenomenon in the history of civilization and economy.
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Dec 01 2010 - 10:15:44 EST