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CAUGHT IN THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION. OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSES BY SOME HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY CHRISTOPH LÜTHY (Associate Editor) Introduction In the week when this article was written, Microsoft announced that beginning in the year 2000, it would award an annual prize of $100'000 to the best electronic book.' Newsweek published the re- sults of a poll which showed that children in the United States between 10 and 15 years of age generally believed that "films and TV" were "the best teacher" they had (49%); humans such as "friends" (48%) and official "school teachers" (41%) came next. 2 An article in some unappetizing glossy journal warned, under the title "Bypass against the Information Infarct," against the estimated 1 billion internet users who would, by the year 2003, entirely clog up all electronic systems of communication.3 The Christian Demo- cratic candidate for the position of prime minister in the North German land of Schleswig-Holstein stated that in the case of a vic- tory, he would reform the local university system, adding: "what we will need in the future is Humboldt plus Bill Gates."' And simulta- neously, a few hundred kilometers further south, at the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Early Science and Medicine – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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