He wouldn't care for this!It was bound to happen sooner or later. I’ve had instant access to an encyclopedia since the mid 1990’s when I installed Encarta from an image on the hard drive as opposed to the CD. Buggy whips only last as long as there are buggies.
There really is such a thing as too clever.
When I was younger I use to love stuff like that, but I didn’t know how biased they were. With the internet we now have access to info they edit out through their bias.
Yup. I loved my World Book encyclopedia as a kid, but looking back now, they seem totally antiquated and unnecessary. Can’t think why anyone would buy print encyclopedias anymore. The only advantage is that the information you get online goes thru dubious “fact checking”.
I am proud to say that in 1984 I did an advertising campaign for EB and suggested then that the future was in video encyclopedia.
Anyone know the status or world book ecyclopedia? or webster dictionary?
We never had an encyclopedia until after I was grown. My Grandparents had the World Book and every time we would visit I would go get one of the volumes and study it.
A few years ago, I bought an entire set for only $20. Then I was given another full set from another year. I now have 3 including both the in depth and abridged sets.
I very seldom read them but for some reason am still glad I have them. I hope my grandchildren don’t just throw them away when I am gone.
I actually thought they had quit printing some time ago as there is no real use for a printed version anymore.
FINALLY,
Other than a North Korean nuke, an Iranian nuke, a Pakistani nuke, a Russian nuke, or a Chinese nuke, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to worry about an EMP (look it up) wiping out everything electronic in this country.
Silly of us to be so paranoid to think that some other country may not like us...
Grew up with an EB handed down by the grandparents. Can remember the day we loaded them all in the car (multiple trips? could have been) and stuck them on the shelf in our house. Definitely used them to “write reports” (which basically consisted of putting the EB article “in your own words”) during elementary school. It sorta was the “internet” of its time - a lot of info about a lot of things but ultimately a mile wide and an inch deep.
I have a full set from 1897.
In the garage I have a Funk & Wagnalls (you could look it up) from the mid-1930’s. It has an entry for Hitler as an up-and-coming leader of Germany.
The writing is quite erudite without being stuffy. Fun to look at the pictures, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2D_sxXAWM&feature=related
You might remember the above EB TV commercial - never knew it was Donovan Freberg, son of the famed Stan Freberg.
Learn something new every day.
Knowledge stored in physical form (tablets, paper, etc) can survive and be hidden for thousands of years. All one needs is sunlight to access it.
Digital information requires electricity and the right technology to read it. It can also be destroyed by a virus, EMP weapons or a cosmic electromagnetic event. If all the information in the world is digital, it can all be lost relatively easily. Imagine if all records, texts, videos, etc in the world were suddenly lost and there were no hard copies because “nobody uses them”.
There may come a time when people are so completely dependent on technology that they have no clue how to live without it. We are already seeing the beginning stages of this.
He wouldn't care for this!My parents had sets of “The Book of Knowledge” and “Groliers Encyclopedia”, dating from the 1940’s.
The “Book of Knowledge” was originally published in Britain as “The Children’s Encyclopedia.” It was great for kids.
I went for a leather-bound set in 1984 that my heirs will inherit. The history it holds can’t be altered, it can only be burnt. There are a number of people - you can see them at work altering Wikipedia at every opportunity - who have a stake in altering history to suit themselves. There will come a day when they’ll burn the books. Those who let them will deserve the world that follows.
Pretty sad. I have three different CD versions that I hardly ever use. And I have a printed ‘79 set that I refer to all the time.
ML/NJ
Wow, are you kidding? That is a travesty. The best supplement to education was when I would sit and just flip through the encyclopedia and read what I thought at the time was interesting. I love the feel of books in my hands no matter how big and bulky, always have. I do not own a Kindle or Nook anything like it, don’t want one because the idea of digital versions are so nebulous, they can be gone in an instant and controlled. I won’t give up my books.