Week 8 Readings

When the Book? When the Net?
http://fromnowon.org/when.html

The one thing I noticed about this article is that it is 10 years old. A lot has changed in 10 years as far as information being reliable from Internet sources. According to the article, books are a better source than the internet when it comes to historical and complex issues since it is based on the facts from people who have spent many hours researching articles and other documents and who are looking to sell their work to a publisher and not just give it out freely over the internet.
Although electronic media makes life easier in some ways such as locating information quicker, sources keep pointing to book material for quality resources and valid information. Young students today mistakenly believe that everything that is available on the Internet is accurate, but what they do not understand is that a larger percentage of information on the Internet is being published by individuals that have done their own research to find a specfic outcome.