The Role of Libraries Between Fragmentation and Complexity of Knowledge
Giovanni Solimine · Ledizioni eBooks · 2016
We can start this reflection taking a prophetic statement made almost fifty years ago by Marshall McLuhan: «The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip it into a private line to ...