Sunday, May 25, 2008
Next from Longman: The Longman Guide to the Horseless Carriage
I understand that it takes time for a book to be published—even when the process does not include copy editing—but it must have been possible to include something more contemporary about the implications of emerging technology in the writing center. The assigned articles model sensible ways to think about the implications of emerging technology in the writing center, but the intervening decade has rendered portions of each article distractingly dated.
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I felt the same way Brian. I kept looking at the mid to late 90s dates and thinking, really?? I do appreciate your positivity in asking us to appreciate the methods used here even if the info is a bit dated.
Seeing how computers were looked at just a decade ago reminds me that some of the technology that seems new, amazing, and more than a little intimidating today will, in five years, seem old-hat. That's why some of the questions that were being asked in the 1980s and 90s about computers might apply to advances today. As Hobson says, we need to pause to ask (477).
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