It seems that I am an increasing victim of the Information Age, or, as Brother Gates once termed it, the "Information Highway." It's not that I wish to get off the road, just that I have to fashion my own way of moving down the highway. I grew up with the belief that you could "look it up." The answer is in a book somewhere. Just find the right book and look it up. Yes, I Google and even occasionally use Wikipedia (though I don't automatically believe anything I read there), but I still trust only respected scholars and peer reviewed material. I am firmly on the side earned expertise and the respected scholar over the so-called wisdom of the crowd. Oh, the snobbery of it all! The trick is to use digital tools with discretion.
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