Andrew Keen’s question in his essay, The Internet Is Bad For You, at The Daily Beast, “…wouldn’t it be better to invest that money in local libraries and librarians, where their education could be supervised by accountable human beings?”, brought to mind a few counterpoints on the subject of libraries.
I was informed by a [...]
World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 28 January – 1 February 2009.
I’m surprised I haven’t yet read any mention this year of Thomas Mann’s novel, The Magic Mountain, which was set in Davos. As Timothy Garton Ash wrote at The Guardian in February 2005: it “shows how the economically interdependent pre-1914 Europe, [...]