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圖書館與網路。Bradbury 這段說話聽來似乎偏頗，但仔細看了三遍，覺其中涉及紙張與非紙張，還有自學與學校教育、經濟弱勢與強勢之間的議題，讓人忍不住開始思考，以數位化取代書本，因預算刪減而關掉圖書館這件事其實不過是為冰山一角。我們還沒來得及在這二十年來快速發展的資訊環境中尋得保留以「人」為本又不粗暴貶抑舊有美好價值的新使用習慣，而使用習慣的改變如何不知不覺影響我們的思維邏輯與價值判斷，因此作出相對成本低廉卻很可能顧此失彼的決策，究竟對人類是好、是壞，仍需要妳我繼續實踐，以及調衡。


"The Internet is a big distraction," said Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, while speaking out in defense of libraries in The New York Times. Bradbury was being interviewed prior to a public appearance benefiting Ventura County's H. P. Wright Library, which is in danger of shutting its doors because of budget cuts.

"Yahoo called me eight weeks ago," he said. "They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.'

"It's distracting," he continued. "It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."

According to the Times, a Yahoo spokeswoman said it was impossible to verify Bradbury's account without more details.

"Libraries raised me," said Bradbury, as passionate about the public library system as ever. "I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money."



Source from: http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/ray-bradbury-to-yahoo-to.php