Havard Librarian, ha.

Monday January 16, 2006 - 11:51AM EDT

Libraries as places to linger and mingle  

 What can I say about this? What a moron. Somehow this loser has made this logical leap that the digitizing of books means no more libraries. What a fucking idiot. This is one of those things that I hate. People jump to these weird ass conclusions from absolutely no firm standing. No one said a damn thing about closing libraries. It is twisted paranoia and ignorance that causes this person to wrongfully assume things about "technologists".  Viewing this as a problem that is a product of technologists' view of the world is assinine. I love how people do this though. They love to level criticism against technologists' for being mechanical and not see these other human things that futz up the world.  The world is mechanical. All this crapola about beauty and greatness and arbitrary ephemeral things like that are figments of a human imagination. You can't live off that, you can't base a society off that.  You can admire it, but beauty is not going to make your next kill in the hunt. It isn't that the view of technologists' don't take these ephemeral things into account. Technologists' just have a better idea that that crap isn't going to help you in crunch time.  They can divorce those things from practicality much better than others.  Actually my main gripe with this article is this goofball's paranoia at losing libraries in the face of digitalization of all information. It makes no sense to me. The assement of the situation is piss poor and criticism level against what this person calls technologists' is ignorant.