Response to a comment on my blog:
Hopefully we'll both become more comfortable as the semester progresses. I'm glad I at least understand what the parts of my computer are now. Maybe a more bottom-up approach to technology - learning what a motherboard does before attempting to troubleshoot - would make it easier for us to understand technological advances as they happen.
On Nan’s blog:
Nan, Your muddiest point is very interesting! I agree with the other comments posted here, but I'll add that we've also got a huge population of public librarians who didn't grow up with computers, much less smart phones. I believe some of the apprehension about digitization comes from a fear of what will happen to those people's jobs. My mom, for example, is a children's librarian who has a great working knowledge of computers, but she's the first to admit that her younger coworkers are much more technologically adept than she is. It's hard to compete with someone who grew up using that technology - not impossible, but it's hard. She's not worried about her job, though, because she's still one of the only librarians in her district who knows how to use Facebook.
On Anthony Lindenmuth’s blog:
The question of whether technology could advance faster than Moore's Law suggests is interesting to me, too. I wonder if corporations follow that timeline because of manufacturing costs, or if they're actually going as fast as they can?
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