For Bella Online, Paula Lurita writes…
\”I love the Internet. I love the World Wide Web. I enjoy surfing and searching. I also worry about the impact that they will have on my profession. This anxiety is only compounded with the purported uses for the Information Superhighway in libraries and education. Several years ago, then Vice President, Al Gore touted the Superhighway as a means for the US economy to be competitive. \”I think it will enable this country to leapfrog the Japanese,\” proclaimed Gore. Of course things were not so simple. At the time no one foresaw the recession of the Asian economy. No one saw the rapid rise and fall of dot-com companies in the United States. The Superhighway was seen as a means of keeping the competitive edge sharp in the techno-economic world. It was seen as the cure for our educational woes. Should that cause anxiety? Yes. Our service economy seems to have an insatiable appetite for communications capacity. The appreciation for the art form can be lost with the mass consumption of information.\” More
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