eBook creation software

[Richard Zane Smith]

so..............


every human being should have an iphone
every human being should have an ebook
every human being should have a facebook account
every human being should have an automobile

teyeterih (i don't know)

amidst the celebration of cool tools... is anyone thinking about
the cost to the earth  and how human minds WILL BE altered by this stuff?
do we see our children now having "NEEDS" we never even thought about?
are we getting the languages back at the very risk of ripping away
the very cultural moorings from which these languages are imbedded?
cultural paradigms that are the antithesis of such conquest-based
 extravagance?

will a line ever be drawn? enough is enough? are we addicted to the "new?"
whatever high tech tool, we hold today will be trashed in 5 years.
Is this really what our ancestors taught us? where is the balance?

teyeterih

ske;noh
Richard


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Cunningham
<lang.support at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 20 January 2012 05:54, Phillip E Cash Cash
> <cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems we need a new buzz word to describe the technology needs,
> > development gap, and cultural/language challenges most communities
> > find themselves in.  This is because we come back to square one every
> > time there is a new educational technology up for consideration.  The
> > idea of a "digital divide" is sort of lame and a bit outmoded these
> > days but it gets a lot of mileage in the text books.
>
> In Australia current terminology is more around digital inclusion and
> digital exclusion (in the context of civil society, e-Democracy and
> egovernment) rather than digital divide and has more to do with
>
> Although interestingly most recent discussions around factors that
> cause digital exclusion that are occurring in Australia exclude
> language as an exclusion factor.
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Cunningham
> Senior Project Manager, Research and Development
> Vicnet
> State Library of Victoria
> Australia
>
> andrewc at vicnet.net.au
> lang.support at gmail.com
>



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