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The Intellectual Implications of Electronic Information
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, April 1994
- pp. 135-141
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Thus far, scholarship (as distinguished from learning) in the humanities has been neither hampered nor helped by the availability and apparent possibilities of electronic information. Access to the sources—secondary and eventually primary—essential to accomplish that scholarship is being revolutionized by electronic information. While theoretically and potentially positive, this revolution exhibits a number of problems reviewed in this article.