Mr. Tracy’s library
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 11-01-2010
Edge’s annual question for 2010 is “How is the Internet changing the way you think?” Some 170 folks submitted answers, including me. (I found it a bit of a challenge, since I wanted to avoid pre-plagiarizing my upcoming book, which happens to be on this subject.) Here’s my submission: As the school year began last September, Cushing Academy, an elite Massachusetts prep school thats been around since Civil War days, announced that it was emptying its library of books. In place of the thousands of volumes that had once crowded the buildings shelves, the school was installing, it said, state-of-the-art…
