[Wikimedia-l] Progress...

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> "As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
> lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
> Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
> experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from
> them."
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> http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reality/
>
> Fred
>


Those bloody kids and their newfangled inventions like the steam loom and
the printing press just don't have any respect any more.

I seriously have no idea what that paragraph is trying to say.




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