useless, wrong, misleading books

["Kremers_Berlin" <Horst_Kremers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Impermanence of Knowledge 

from
IEEE Spectrum Magazine, March 2004

....
Now when I visit libraries I'm suspicious. I love the ambiance and even the
smell, but I'm wary about those books. In the fields that I know, I see
books that are obsolete and even wrong. Unfortunately, this is most of the
books. I think that a librarian should go through and remove those decayed
books. Maybe they should put a little sticker on the shelf for a
placeholder. "The book that previously occupied this space, (name of book),
has been judged to have become useless, wrong, and misleading."
.....

Robert Lucky 



For the rest of that story see
http://www.boblucky.com/reflect/mar04.htm
 


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