[Wikimedia-l] Progress...

[Fred Bauder]

> 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."
>>
>>
>> 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.

A teaching moment... if not a learning one.

Fred