In history we read about the destruction of Alexandria's famous library because of a fire. We know many philosophers lived for a while there during ancient time. Strorage of a knowledge was and still is a challenge for a humanity.Today with the new electronic technology it became cheaper and cheaper. Not only knowledge , but we are now able to collect and store huge amount of data as well. Processing big data also became an important profession.
We read from the social media that a supermarket data processor discovered one of her client pregnancy even before she knew it ! Maybe it is just an urban legend.
Until internet era libraries was the only source of knowledge. Governments spent a lot of money for the contsruction and maintining them properly. University students were spending most of their time for research and surveys at libraries.
After the discovery of the internet knowledge started to spread around the world easily and be accessible to anyone even almost for free..The impact will be great to educational inequality. Now you just ask questions to the web browser you are accustomed to and you get thousands of answers , videos and articles in second.
Now we have to teach students to ask smart question to find out proper answers.
Avram Aji
01.04.2022
