bikechic (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bikechic) wrote,@ 2007-09-28 06:12:00 |
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Cybrarians
"Curiously, the thrillingly futuristic Web has hyper-driven us into the next millennium just quickly and rudely enough to reveal that we were in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It turns out that the indispensible element of online media remains -- get this -- text! And the frenzy to produce the first Internet "killer app" has revealed that we had one all along -- good old vanilla e-mail. And after we all got buried by the World Wide Vanity Press, we realized that the most valuable job on the Web belongs not to HTML coders and graphics wizards but to the members of the oldest geek profession, librarians -- "cybrarians," as they're known in the realm of electrons -- and along with them, of course, editors." from The Next Big Thing -- Words! by Ralph Lombreglia The Atlantic Online, February 26, 1997 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digi
"Curiously, the thrillingly futuristic Web has hyper-driven us into the next millennium just quickly and rudely enough to reveal that we were in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It turns out that the indispensible element of online media remains -- get this -- text! And the frenzy to produce the first Internet "killer app" has revealed that we had one all along -- good old vanilla e-mail. And after we all got buried by the World Wide Vanity Press, we realized that the most valuable job on the Web belongs not to HTML coders and graphics wizards but to the members of the oldest geek profession, librarians -- "cybrarians," as they're known in the realm of electrons -- and along with them, of course, editors." from The Next Big Thing -- Words! by Ralph Lombreglia The Atlantic Online, February 26, 1997 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digi
