{"id":179,"date":"2004-02-11T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/02\/11\/more-than-a-search-engine\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:41","slug":"more-than-a-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/02\/11\/more-than-a-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a search engine &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a89'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave was discussing Bill Gates, Microsoft and Encarta, and how the net<br \/>\nevidently made Encarta moot:&nbsp; &#8220;Who needs an encyclopedia on a<br \/>\nCD-ROM when you have the Web at your fingertips?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t comment on Encarta, never having used it, but I can&#8217;t think of<br \/>\nanything analogous online to an encyclopedia or a whole range of<br \/>\nreference tools that&#8217;s freely available.&nbsp; The wikipedia?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Dave&#8217;s remark comes perilously close to some made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/rm\/2002\/13826.htm\">Sec&#8217;y of State Colin Powell<\/a><br \/>\nin the fall of 2002: &#8220;I told my staff: &#8216;I no longer have any<br \/>\nencyclopedias, any dictionaries, or any reference materials anywhere in<br \/>\nmy office, whatsoever, I don&#8217;t <br \/>\nneed them. I&#8217;ve stopped using all reference materials because you don&#8217;t <br \/>\nneed it. All you need is a search engine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Had the secretary kept his reference materials, might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/02\/05\/news\/opinion\/courtwatch\/main539500.shtml\">he have appeared at the UN six months later with a vial of white powder<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Update (2\/11\/04, evening): See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/2004\/02\/11#a781\">Jessica&#8217;s thoughtful entry<\/a> on online sources and reliability.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave was discussing Bill Gates, Microsoft and Encarta, and how the net evidently made Encarta moot:&nbsp; &#8220;Who needs an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM when you have the Web at your fingertips?&#8221; I can&#8217;t comment on Encarta, never having used it, but I can&#8217;t think of anything analogous online to an encyclopedia or a whole range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}