Comments on: To Boldly Go… http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How eBooks are making people stupid (and not in the way you are thinking) « Agnostic, Maybe http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-1489 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:10:10 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-1489 [...] part of the dream of information services? This is sort of thing that people in the 1960’s saw on Star Trek and went, “Man, wouldn’t that be cool?” And within a generation, it exists. If there is a [...]

]]> By: Ron Ateman http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-196 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:43:43 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-196 Another element of the futuristic vision can be seen in the episode “Court Martial”. Attorney Samuel T. Cogley makes an impassioned speech about man’s disconnection with human experience — to be found, in part, with the engagement of books rather than computers…

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Court_Martial_%28episode%29

]]> By: Maggie http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-195 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:44:09 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/to-boldly-go/#comment-195 What an exciting vision! One of my concerns, however, is the potential disappearance of personal pleasure reading. Many who read (students especially) cannot afford to purchase every book they read and there will be no library to borrow it from. Even your best friends may not let you borrow their Kindles…so unless copyright disappears along with physical libraries, no current fiction will be available.

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