Yeah, go out and by a book on Oracle OCCI (not OCI), or how about getting a book for me on otl (Oracle, Odbc and DB2-CLI Template Library). I know, maybe I could use a book with all the latest info on the upcoming C++0X, what I need to do to make sure my current code will be compatible, and what exciting features I can take advantage of now.

Lets be fair. She's in media, and seems to have taken a social/political stance. Get me some "printed academic material" that contains a video (primary source) from Osama Bin Laden, or some academic sources that have the recent Golden Globe winners.

In reality, there are plenty of inaccurate textbooks, spouting off wrong information, with no one questioning them, and Wikipedia is an amazing research tool because you can quickly get somewhat accurate information and they usually come with a boatload of primary sources. After getting a better education through Google, I for one am appalled at all the important information they got wrong, misrepresented, or just left out of my text books.

She's criticizing the internet, and providing her students with tertiary resources (peer reviewed text is a secondary source and they're just extracts, which makes them once more removed). Someone should smack her with her 7 degrees! I would, but I'm too busy trying to learn everything in the world (and using Wikipedia and Google spell check to track down the word tertiary).

W.-, did you get all that information by googling it? It sounds like it.

Helpful hint for people that don't quite get it:
She's professor of Media at the University of Brighton.
Brighton is located in the UK, UK is short for united kingdom, United Kingdom is an island located in europe, the uk is a located about 5000 kilometer east of new york and is not part of the US, a kilometer is 0.621 miles.

Tara holds three Bachelor degrees: a first class honours in history, along with qualifications in Literature and Communication and Professional Education (passed with distinction). She also has three Masters Degrees: a Research Masters in history (passed with distinction), a Master of Letters in cultural studies and a Masters of Education (with first class honours). She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy. At the end of 2001, she gained a Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies, again attained with Distinction. She is currently enrolled in a Master of Physical and Health Education.

Tara has held academic positions in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She won the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities in 1998, along with other Awards in the areas of disability and cultural studies. In 2005, Tara won both the Murdoch University Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award. She was a finalist for the 2005 Australian of the Year and also the 2005 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community Service category. In 1999 and 2002, she was shortlisted for the Western Australian Citizen of the Year.

Old people are always scared of new stuff.

But I have to say googles monopoly and involvement in censorship and "information management" around the world is scary...

To the comment about the founding fathers and income taxes...
There is no law that says you have to pay income tax in America. It's actually unconstitutional...a tax to feed the reserve bankers... this would make every founding father cry...

The first library book I ever got in what I would call the poltical commentary section was by Rush Limbaugh, so the policy definitely isn't a total solution.

I'd be happy if people could discriminate between a democracy and a constitutional republic. The general consensus seems to be,"Who gives a f***?" Or how about some history books that note that the Founding Fathers "religious freedom" problems had a lot to do with taxes. How many Founding Fathers do you think would be happy to hear about the Income Tax?

This is far from new and exciting? 

Perhaps if you had attended college you would have written a few less mistakes and experienced this first hand 4 years ago...

All in good fun

you cant grep a dead tree

This woman sounds as stupid as she is old. Does she know what a search engine is?

“Google is filling, but it does not necessarily offer nutritional content,” she said. 

If so, the same could be said about any search engine.

Plus anyone who refferences wickipedia probally deserves to fail their assignment.

It sounds like she just wants a rant!