For those of us who grew up in the days before the internet, even now it’s rather amazing that we have all the knowledge of the world literally at our fingertips. When I was a kid, if I wanted to know something, I looked in books; if my parents’ rather extensive library didn’t have the information I sought, there were a couple of city libraries within an hour or so by car, and I could generally find what I sought there.
Now, though? If I’m not sitting here at my desk in front of four 27″ screens and access to the entire internet, I can squint at the tiny screen on my phone and find pretty much the same information. Granted, the internet being what it is, there’s an awful lot of chaff to be sifted through before one finds the wheat, but sometimes disappearing down those rabbit holes is part of the fun.
I’m also a guy who went to college. Twice, in fact, in the mid-1980s for an undergraduate degree in biology, then in the early Oughts for an MBA in technology management. In the case of my undergraduate degree, in those days, I only used a computer to write up research reports and to run a very elementary biostatistics program for some of my research. That MBA, though? All of that was information that I could have found on the internet.
Elon Musk has now taken the interesting position that this technology is making the university system obsolete. He might have a point.
College doesn’t make anyone intelligent. Experience will help with that.
Good judgement comes from experience………………experience comes from bad judgement!!
Truer words never spoken.