Technology alone is not enough

Wigington, Ronald L.

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Title

Technology alone is not enough

Author(s)

Wigington, Ronald L.

Issue Date

1981

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Automation
• Library science --Data processing
• Information technology

Abstract

"Many have traced the evolution of information transfer from drawings on the walls of caves to inscriptions on stone tablets, to scribes writing on papyrus or other early forms of paper, to ""Gutenberg technology."" By now it has become trite to mention that computer and electronic communications together represent another revolution in the transfer and utilization of knowledge. Yet I mention it because we have only scratched the surface in understanding and using these mechanisms for supporting human learning and for facilitating human decision-making. We are rapidly approaching the point at which the mechanical and inherent cost impediments of media and mechanisms for information transfer and knowledge production will disappear as limitations to reaching the full potential of information systems. With these impediments out of the way, what is left to inhibit knowledge creation and dissemination are the arrangements necessary to derive the revenue for supporting the information processing, distribution and use mechanisms, and, most of all, the limitations of human intelligence to deal with complex situations."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (18th : 1981)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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