Posted by Dr. Science on 01/21/2013 in
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Lately, I’ve heard that some counties aren’t funding their libraries anymore. Do we even need libraries nowadays?
———- from Brian Price of Ames, IA
Only those few saps who don’t have a multimedia computer in-house. No, our libraries are quaint reminders of the days before eight-speed CD ROM drives, better suited for developing nations where people still have the time to read. The most an American today can skim is a pie chart or an opinion poll. Those can be downloaded from any number of services. I say ship all the books and librarians to those places where they need book learning and leave us to our high speed modems and processed infotainment.
