ME AND IT
I don't mean me and It , the title of Stephen King's bestseller book. I mean me and IT, information technology. My relationship with IT isn't a good one. There was a time when I had a good relationship with IT. That was in the 1990s when the internet got rolled out in universities. Though initially developed for military purposes in the US, the internet was generally first used for civilian purposes in universities. Researchers, including university researchers, in America, Britain and France, collaborated with the US Department of Defense in developing the internet. Universities, especially university libraries, were already quite connected. So it was no surprise then that the internet hit academia before, say, business and government. I was ahead of the game at this time but over the last three decades I'm now well behind the game. My five year-old grandson will very soon catch me up and overtake me. He's right now sitting on my lap playing with his iPad. I h...