Whenever I think about computer technology, these words from Henry David Thoreau come to mind:
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,… We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." --- from Walden, Chapter 1.
Technology, digital or otherwise, is essentially a set of tools. Learning how to use new tools is almost always labor intensive and can be painful. I am more concerned about whether we, as librarians, have anything important to communicate to the public than I am with the particular communication technology we might use.
Jim Patterson
jamespat@coj.net
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