It is harder for some hacker to hack into a book and change the content. Unlike an electronic device where any youngster can do just that. Imagine what would happen if all of the electronics of the world would be shut down, even if it was a solar flare from the sun, what would happen. People can't do simple math anymore without a calculator.
The last time I went to a library was... I'd say 2005? There's a library on my college campus, but I would go there just to study or chill. I don't think I ever really wanted to see a book or check it out. I prefer owning them instead. So I don't have a traditional use for them. But others might. For research, I just use the internet.
If they spent all the money they spend on library onto digitalizing as many books as possible and developing an evolved search engine that could find sections of various books related to what you are looking for (using AIs for example), I think it would be much better. You could also filter your search by authors, periods, themes...
I like libraries. I don't want to collect books, borrowing them is easier being able to read anywhere without having to have batteries or a charger, I haven't had people bother or make noise, so I don't mind keeping them around.
I think libraries still serve a very important purpose, sure technology is advancing every day but, there's still something special about reading a book even in 2019. The world may trample over it but I for one will still love libraries, and when I'm old and grey in the future I'll be one of the last Grandma's to be reading actual paper books before I pass away.
Something about libraries makes me nostalgic thinking of all the times i was little and my mom would take me and how we got to skip an hour a day every two weeks of class in kinder-5th grade just to go.
Even though i dont use them anymore, something about doing away with them altogether is deeply saddening.
I use to go with my mom often to libraries as a child as well. I don’t want them gone, there are many high energy consumption places that can be disposed of that are farrrrr less useful than a library.
The days of sitting and trying to find a book or a page as evidence for research is antiquated. I used the library because it was a nice building and a great place to study. Most of the time, people were on their laptops
If conflict erupts and the enemy has good cyber warfare capabilities - all of your information is at risk whereas you can always hide a booke in someplace where you can find it later.
@ThisDudeHere your forgetting backups not linked to the internet. A simply hardrive the size of your hand can contain more information than 3 entire libaries. Put in a fire safe it is safer than a library.
And what happens when infrastructure collapses and there's no one around to maintain the internet and any machine to plug your hard drives that you had to store super deep underground? The average nuclear holocaust survivor will no longer have a working computer. They will need those books on gardening, survival and etc.
And the nukes won't be so prolific that they'll hit everything everywhere - small towns and villages with their libraries will survive. As will the books there. The internet, as well as the global resources needed to maintain the computers, will not survive.
Actually, they won't. Modern plants are built with such failsafes that you would have to try hard to get them to endanger people around them. Fukushima was 40 years old.
That and eradicating libraries under the pretence that if everything goes to shit, we're probably all going to die, is very nihilistic. Better suppose that some will survive and will thus benefit from the books.
Your own picture shows why libraries MUST be saved!
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Some people rely on them. We need them. No reason not to save them. Some people dont have computers or access to what they provide. Its horrible to see such a thing go under bc the net has taking the world over.. What we can use an get from them makes it clear that that's a shit idea... No do not get rid of them thats not a good idea
In England we use libraries as community hubs, places where training can be conducted and where people who do not have access to internet can use it for free.
And do you think we should shut down community centers? is it not better to rehabilitate libraries to be relevant in the modern climate rather than scrapping them?
You raise some excellent points. If a library isn't being used it's a waste, maybe downsizing the numbers of public libaries will increase the use of the ones still operating.
Well the way I see it, if theatre still exists despite being outdated by cinema, and if radio still exists despite being outdated by TV, then libraries will continue to exist despite being outdated by the internet.
Many people are so ignorant. Stadiums and cruises are less important than libraries because a library it’s a good study environment and provides free knowledge. A place for obtaining a wide of knowledge is better than a place just for entertainment
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It is harder for some hacker to hack into a book and change the content. Unlike an electronic device where any youngster can do just that.
Imagine what would happen if all of the electronics of the world would be shut down, even if it was a solar flare from the sun, what would happen.
People can't do simple math anymore without a calculator.
The last time I went to a library was... I'd say 2005? There's a library on my college campus, but I would go there just to study or chill. I don't think I ever really wanted to see a book or check it out. I prefer owning them instead. So I don't have a traditional use for them. But others might. For research, I just use the internet.
If they spent all the money they spend on library onto digitalizing as many books as possible and developing an evolved search engine that could find sections of various books related to what you are looking for (using AIs for example), I think it would be much better. You could also filter your search by authors, periods, themes...
I like libraries. I don't want to collect books, borrowing them is easier being able to read anywhere without having to have batteries or a charger, I haven't had people bother or make noise, so I don't mind keeping them around.
I think libraries still serve a very important purpose, sure technology is advancing every day but, there's still something special about reading a book even in 2019. The world may trample over it but I for one will still love libraries, and when I'm old and grey in the future I'll be one of the last Grandma's to be reading actual paper books before I pass away.
I agree but also disagree.
Something about libraries makes me nostalgic thinking of all the times i was little and my mom would take me and how we got to skip an hour a day every two weeks of class in kinder-5th grade just to go.
Even though i dont use them anymore, something about doing away with them altogether is deeply saddening.
I use to go with my mom often to libraries as a child as well. I don’t want them gone, there are many high energy consumption places that can be disposed of that are farrrrr less useful than a library.
The days of sitting and trying to find a book or a page as evidence for research is antiquated. I used the library because it was a nice building and a great place to study. Most of the time, people were on their laptops
This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things ever written. It's... amazing, in a way. It belongs in a library.
If the internet goes down so do the wikipedias. Only physical destruction will delete a book. They also survive wars.
Really because the Library at Alexandria didn't
Beacuse it was physical destruction at ground zero.
Because. Heh, because, because, because... the wonderful Wizard of Oz (sorry).
physical destruction during a war.
If conflict erupts and the enemy has good cyber warfare capabilities - all of your information is at risk whereas you can always hide a booke in someplace where you can find it later.
@ThisDudeHere your forgetting backups not linked to the internet. A simply hardrive the size of your hand can contain more information than 3 entire libaries. Put in a fire safe it is safer than a library.
Not safe from an electro magnetic pulse though. It would have to be stored miles underground to avoid the effect of an EMP.
So books aren't safe from nuclear fire
And what happens when infrastructure collapses and there's no one around to maintain the internet and any machine to plug your hard drives that you had to store super deep underground? The average nuclear holocaust survivor will no longer have a working computer. They will need those books on gardening, survival and etc.
And the nukes won't be so prolific that they'll hit everything everywhere - small towns and villages with their libraries will survive. As will the books there.
The internet, as well as the global resources needed to maintain the computers, will not survive.
@ThisDudeHere if the whole infrastructure collapses with no one to maintain it, all those nuclear power plants will go critical and wipe us out.
Actually, they won't. Modern plants are built with such failsafes that you would have to try hard to get them to endanger people around them. Fukushima was 40 years old.
That and eradicating libraries under the pretence that if everything goes to shit, we're probably all going to die, is very nihilistic. Better suppose that some will survive and will thus benefit from the books.
I think we can all not safely agree that books win the internets.
Your own picture shows why libraries MUST be saved!
Only a low IQ redneck would create a post like this...
Conservatives; all they need is beer, guns & hillbilly incest;
(what could possibly go wrong with that?)
Some people rely on them. We need them. No reason not to save them. Some people dont have computers or access to what they provide. Its horrible to see such a thing go under bc the net has taking the world over.. What we can use an get from them makes it clear that that's a shit idea... No do not get rid of them thats not a good idea
Our patriotic activist movement has a couple private libraries, they still do good for the people who really want to use them.
Such as?
I'l like to keep these libraries private.
Well if the taxpayer isn't paying for it then it's not our business.
In England we use libraries as community hubs, places where training can be conducted and where people who do not have access to internet can use it for free.
Free knowledge, no matter its package, is good.
So basically a room with computers like in a community centre? Libaries in England are mostly empty, people don't use them anymore.
And do you think we should shut down community centers? is it not better to rehabilitate libraries to be relevant in the modern climate rather than scrapping them?
Community centres are still relevant and add used. It takes a lot of money to run your local library, a big waste if they are not used.
Libraries are being used as community centers you dolt.
Nope they are being used as places to shoot up and for Peter Griffin's internet porn night on Thursdays.
No, they are not. At least, not more so than workplace toilets, public toilets, the beach and trains. Should we get rid of these too?
All you listed are needed and in use by the public.
And so are libraries.
Fraid not
I'm afraid so.
OMG. Seriously?
I’m sorry. I really don’t have much else to say. But thank you for inviting me.
You raise some excellent points. If a library isn't being used it's a waste, maybe downsizing the numbers of public libaries will increase the use of the ones still operating.
I like to go to the library to print out stuff cuz sometimes my printer just doesn't work.
20p per page?
Why hunans shouldn't exist.
1. They are obsolete.
Well the way I see it, if theatre still exists despite being outdated by cinema, and if radio still exists despite being outdated by TV, then libraries will continue to exist despite being outdated by the internet.
Many people are so ignorant. Stadiums and cruises are less important than libraries because a library it’s a good study environment and provides free knowledge. A place for obtaining a wide of knowledge is better than a place just for entertainment