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Thursday, October 03, 2002
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_4.html Digital Promises Arun Kumar Tripathi In the article "As Educators Rush to Embrace, a Coterie of Skeptics Seeks to Be Heard," University of California-Berkeley professor of philosophy Hubert L. Dreyfus says relying on the Internet would discourage the passionate commitment that he sees at the heart of advanced learning in any field. The risk-free anonymity of the Internet, he says, makes it a good medium for slander, innuendo, endless gossip, and ultimately, boredom. "Without some way of telling the relevant from the irrelevant and the significant from the insignificant, everything becomes equally interesting and equally boring." He later argues, "The nihilistic pull of the new network culture doesn't prohibit such personal commitment, but does inhibit [it]." ...
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