mamamusings: February 4, 2003

elizabeth lane lawley's thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topics

Tuesday, 4 February 2003

in praise of inconvenience

Boston Globe Online / Magazine, on Google and the ease with which it allows us to retrieve information on other people:

"It's the collapse of inconvenience," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. "It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it."

That's an interesting and important idea. If I weren't in a faculty meeting right now, I might be able to write more about it. Later, I guess.

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