October 16, 2011
Old School vs. New School
Textbooks vs. Wikipedia. Although wikipedia is definitely easier and more accessible- seeing how you can pretty much you can see it anywhere and anytime- it still has a long way to go. Anyone with a brain and access to the internet can manipulate anything on the internet. So if you come across a page on wikipedia about a creature who can breathe fire and likes to eat little children, obviously it exists. I mean, it's on wikipedia... the internet doesn't lie! Wrong. So for accuracy and legitimacy, the textbook wins this round. Just going on wikipedia and typing whatever you need to research and have this whole page on everything you'll ever need to know about perhaps, hypothermia or the invention of post-its is wonderful but it's just feeding our generation with the belief that the internet is some sort of a god. At this rate, we won't even know what books are or how to find something in, god forbid it ever happens, the dictionary- a real, solid, made of paper dictionary. What's going to happen to us when the internet shuts down for a couple of days, weeks, months, or even years? Even though wikipedia is easy to use, I still prefer the old-school textbooks. They give me a little bit of hope that we're not all doomed to live in a society who types only with numbers and symbols and talk in texting lingo.
doomed! doomed, I say...was there something you saw on wikipedia that the textbook contradicted??
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